Stakeholder utility measures for declarative processes and their use in
process comparisons
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03520v1
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 21:11:13 GMT
- Title: Stakeholder utility measures for declarative processes and their use in
process comparisons
- Authors: Mark Dukes
- Abstract summary: We present a method for calculating and analyzing stakeholder derivation utilities of processes that arise in, but are not limited to, the social sciences.
This method is quite general and applicable to any situation in which declarative-type constraints of a modal and/or temporal nature play a part.
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- Abstract: We present a method for calculating and analyzing stakeholder utilities of
processes that arise in, but are not limited to, the social sciences. These
areas include business process analysis, healthcare workflow analysis and
policy process analysis. This method is quite general and applicable to any
situation in which declarative-type constraints of a modal and/or temporal
nature play a part.
A declarative process is a process in which activities may freely happen
while respecting a set of constraints. For such a process, anything may happen
so long as it is not explicitly forbidden. Declarative processes have been used
and studied as models of business and healthcare workflows by several authors.
In considering a declarative process as a model of some system it is natural to
consider how the process behaves with respect to stakeholders. We derive a
measure for stakeholder utility that can be applied in a very general setting.
This derivation is achieved by listing a collection a properties which we argue
such a stakeholder utility function ought to satisfy, and then using these to
show a very specific form must hold for such a utility. The utility measure
depends on the set of unique traces of the declarative process, and calculating
this set requires a combinatorial analysis of the declarative graph that
represents the process.
This builds on previous work of the author wherein the combinatorial
diversity metrics for declarative processes were derived for use in policy
process analysis. The collection of stakeholder utilities can themselves then
be used to form a metric with which we can compare different declarative
processes to one another. These are illustrated using several examples of
declarative processes that already exist in the literature.
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