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How to Make Business Processes "Socialize"?
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
  • Zakaria Maamar
  • Noura Faci
  • Ejub Kajan
  • Sherif Sakr
  • Mohamed Boukhebouze
  • Ahmed Barnawi
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-17-2015
Abstract

This paper presents an approach that builds upon social computing principles to make business processes; "socialize". First the approach identifies the main components of a business process that are task, person, and; machine. A task is a work unit that forms with other tasks a business process and that a person and/ormachine; execute. Afterwards the approach enriches a business process with details captured from the (execution; and social) relations that connect tasks together, persons together, and machines together. While execution; relations are widely reported in the literature, there is a growing interest in studying the role of social; relations in business processes. The approach uses social relations to build configuration network of tasks,; social network of persons, and support network ofmachines. These networks capture the ongoing interactions; that arise when business processes are executed. A system illustrating how these networks are developed is; also demonstrated in the paper.

Publisher
European Alliance for Innovation n.o.
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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Ejub Kajan, Sherif Sakr, et al.. "How to Make Business Processes "Socialize"?" EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Vol. 2 (2015) p. 150284 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2410-0218" target="_blank">2410-0218</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/377/