A Grammatical Approach to Data-centric Case Management in a Distributed Collaborative Environment

TL;DR

This paper introduces a declarative, decentralized artifact-centric case management model using tree structures where stakeholders asynchronously communicate, enabling distributed and flexible case handling.

Contribution

It proposes a novel purely declarative approach with a decentralization scheme for artifact-centric case management systems based on tree-like structures.

Findings

Supports asynchronous stakeholder communication

Enables distribution without shared memory

Provides a formal semantic framework

Abstract

This paper presents a purely declarative approach to artifact-centric case management systems, and a decentralization scheme for this model. Each case is presented as a tree-like structure; nodes bear information that combines data and computations. Each node belongs to a given stakeholder, and semantic rules govern the evolution of the tree structure, as well as how data values derive from information stemming from the context of the node. Stakeholders communicate through asynchronous message passing without shared memory, enabling convenient distribution.