Modeling decision structures and dependencies

Decisions are often not adequately modeled. They are hardcoded in process models or other representations, but not always modeled in a systematic way. Because of this hardcoding or inclusion in other models, organizations often lack the necessary flexibility, maintainability and traceability in their business operations. The aim of this paper is to propose a decision structuring methodology, named Decision Dependency Design (D3). This methodology addresses the above problems by structuring decisions and indicating underlying dependencies. From the decision structure, different execution mechanisms could be designed.

ISBN:978-3-642-33617-1

Publication year:2012