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A comprehensive guide to wellknown workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the controlflow, data, and resource perspectives.The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's complex service and knowledgebased activities. The growing field of business process management (BPM) focuses on methods and tools for designing, enacting, and analyzing business processes. This volume offers a definitive guide to the use of patterns, which synthesize the wide range of approaches to modeling business processes. It provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the wellknown workflow patterns collectionrecurrent, generic constructs describing common business process modeling and execution scenarios, presented in the form of problemsolution dialectics. The underlying principles of the patterns approach ensure that they are independent of any specific enabling technology, representational formalism, or modeling approach, and thus broadly applicable across the business process modeling and business process technology domains.The authors, drawing on extensive research done by the Workflow Patterns Initiative, offer a detailed introduction to the fundamentals of business process modeling and management; describe three major pattern catalogs, presented from controlflow, data, and resource perspectives; and survey related BPM patterns. The book, a companion to the authoritative Workflow Patterns website, will be an essential resource for both academics and practitioners working in business process modeling and business process management.
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- Q: What is the main focus of 'Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide'? A: The book focuses on well-known workflow patterns and provides a comprehensive guide to business process modeling, presenting constructs from control-flow, data, and resource perspectives.
- Q: Who is the author of this book? A: The author of 'Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide' is Nick Russell.
- Q: What are the key features of this book? A: Key features include an introduction to business process modeling, detailed explanations of three major pattern catalogs, and insights from the Workflow Patterns Initiative.
- Q: How many pages does the book contain? A: The book contains 384 pages.
- Q: What type of binding does this book have? A: This book is available in hardcover binding.
- Q: When was 'Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide' published? A: The book was published on February 12, 2016.
- Q: Is this book suitable for both academics and practitioners? A: Yes, the book serves as an essential resource for both academics and practitioners involved in business process modeling and management.
- Q: What edition of the book is available? A: The available edition of the book is the first edition.
- Q: Does the book cover any specific BPM tools or technologies? A: While the book discusses BPM concepts, it emphasizes the independence of the workflow patterns from any specific enabling technology or modeling approach.
- Q: What topics are addressed in the book related to business process management? A: The book addresses various topics including business process modeling fundamentals, control-flow, data, resource perspectives, and related BPM patterns.