Towards Aspects Identification in Business Process Through Process Mining
Resumo
In business process models, elements can be scattered (repeated) within different processes, making it difficult to handle changes, analyze process for improvements, or check crosscutting impacts. These scattered elements are named as Aspects. Similar to the aspect-oriented paradigm in programming languages, in BPM, aspect handling has the goal to modularize the crosscutting concerns spread across the models. This process modularization facilitates the management of the process (reuse, maintenance and understanding). The current approaches for aspect identification are made manually; thus, resulting in the problem of subjectivity and lack of systematization. This paper proposes a method to automatically identify aspects in business process from its event logs. The method is based on mining techniques and it aims to solve the problem of the subjectivity identification made by specialists. The initial results from a preliminary evaluation showed evidences that the method identified correctly the aspects present in the process model.
Palavras-chave:
Aspectos, Mineração de Processos, Gerenciamento de Processos de Negócios
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Garcia, R. 2010. "O que é Programação Orientada a Aspectos?". Java Framework Portal. Available at
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Josuttis, N. 2007. “SOA in practice: The Art of Distributed System Design”. Beijing; Cambridge. O’Reilly, 324p.
Kiczales, G., Hugunin, J., Hilsdale, E., Kersten, M., Palm, J., Lopes, C., Griswold, B., Isberg, W. 2003. "Aspect Oriented Programming". Final Technical Report from Air Force Research Laboratory from Palo Alto Research Center. Rome, New York. July.
Kiczales, G., Lamping, J., Mendhekar, A., Maeda, C., Lopes C., Loingtier J., Irwin, J. 1997. “Aspect-Oriented Programming”. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Finland. Springer-Verlag LNCS 1241. June.
OMG. 2011. “Business Process Modeling Notation Specification”. January.
Pahlsson, N. 2012. "Aspect-Oriented Programming - An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming and AspectJ". Department of Technology from University of Kalmar. Topic Report for Software Engineering. Novembro.
Rago, A., Abait E., Marcos C., Diaz-Pace A. 2009. “Early Aspect Identification From Use Cases Using Nlp And Wsd Techniques”. 15th Workshop on Early aspects from International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development.
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Publicado
26/05/2015
Como Citar
BRANDÃO, Bruna; SANTORO, Flávia; AZEVEDO, Leonardo.
Towards Aspects Identification in Business Process Through Process Mining. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE SISTEMAS DE INFORMAÇÃO (SBSI), 11. , 2015, Goiânia.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2015
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p. 741-748.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2015.5883.
