Artifact-centric approach to business process modeling has received considerable attention for elevating data logic to the same level as the process flow logic. With the emergence of this modeling paradigm, several recent works have focused on synthesizing the indispensable lifecycles of key business entities called artifacts from the standalone activity-centric processes. However, synthesizing artifact lifecycles from the inter-organizational business processes (IOBP) is challenging, as the artifacts and states are shared among two or more collaborating processes. Thus, unlike a standalone process, the synthesis of artifact lifecycles from an IOBP require the process interactions to be captured by preserving the dependencies between the involved artifacts and states in the resulting lifecycles. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an automated approach that aims at merging the collaborating processes of an IOBP in order to support the synthesis of artifact lifecycles from an IOBP. The proposed approach is comprised of algorithms that combine the nodes of collaborating processes to generate an integrated process that can be used to synthesize the artifact lifecycles pertinent to an IOBP. We demonstrate the proposed approach using an e-business process scenario and the validity is proved using theorems and a prototype implementation.

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一种为工件生命周期合成合并组织间业务流程的协作流程的方法

以工件为中心的业务流程建模方法因将数据逻辑提升到与流程流逻辑相同的级别而受到了相当多的关注。随着这种建模范式的出现，最近的几项工作都集中在从独立的以活动为中心的流程中合成称为工件的关键业务实体的不可或缺的生命周期。然而，从组织间业务流程 (IOBP) 合成工件生命周期具有挑战性，因为工件和状态在两个或多个协作流程之间共享。因此，与独立流程不同，来自 IOBP 的工件生命周期的合成需要通过保留所涉及的工件与结果生命周期中的状态之间的依赖关系来捕获流程交互。因此，在本文中，我们提出了一种自动化方法，旨在合并 IOBP 的协作流程，以支持从 IOBP 合成工件生命周期。所提出的方法由组合协作流程节点的算法组成，以生成可用于合成与 IOBP 相关的工件生命周期的集成流程。我们使用电子商务流程场景演示了所提出的方法，并使用定理和原型实现证明了有效性。所提出的方法由组合协作流程节点的算法组成，以生成可用于合成与 IOBP 相关的工件生命周期的集成流程。我们使用电子商务流程场景演示了所提出的方法，并使用定理和原型实现证明了有效性。所提出的方法由组合协作流程节点的算法组成，以生成可用于合成与 IOBP 相关的工件生命周期的集成流程。我们使用电子商务流程场景演示了所提出的方法，并使用定理和原型实现证明了有效性。