Abstract
Business process management has become a standard commodity to manage and improve business operations in organisations. Large process model collections emerged. Managing, and maintaining them has become a major area of research. Business process architectures (BPAs) have been introduced to support this task focusing on interdependencies between processes. Both the process and BPA layer are often modeled independently, creating inconsistencies between both layers. However, a consistent overview on process interdependencies on BPA level is of high importance, especially in regard to assessing the impact of change when optimising business process collaborations. In this paper, we propose a formal approach to extract BPAs from process model collections connecting process layer and BPA layer for assuring consistency between them. Interdependencies between process models will be reflected in trigger and message flows on BPA level giving a high level overview of process collaboration as well as allowing its formal verification with existing approaches. We will show the extraction of BPAs from process model collections on a running example modeled in BPMN.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Business Process
- Business Process Management
- Business Process Model
- Intermediate Event
- Process Collaboration
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Weske, M.: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures, 2nd edn. Springer (2012)
Eid-Sabbagh, R.-H., Weske, M.: Analyzing Business Process Architectures. In: Salinesi, C., Norrie, M.C., Pastor, Ó. (eds.) CAiSE 2013. LNCS, vol. 7908, pp. 208–223. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)
Eid-Sabbagh, R.-H., Hewelt, M., Weske, M.: Business Process Architectures with Multiplicities: Transformation and Correctness. In: Daniel, F., Wang, J., Weber, B. (eds.) BPM 2013. LNCS, vol. 8094, pp. 227–234. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)
OMG: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Version 2.0 (2011)
van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Formalization and verification of event-driven process chains. Information and Software Technology 41(10), 639–650 (1999)
Dijkman, R.M., Dumas, M., Ouyang, C.: Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN. Inf. Softw. Technol. 50(12), 1281–1294 (2008)
Eid-Sabbagh, R.-H., Hewelt, M., Meyer, A., Weske, M.: Deriving Business Process Data Architecturesfrom Process Model Collections. In: Basu, S., Pautasso, C., Zhang, L., Fu, X. (eds.) ICSOC 2013. LNCS, vol. 8274, pp. 533–540. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)
Dijkman, R.M., Vanderfeesten, I., Reijers, H.A.: The Road to a Business Process Architecture: An Overview of Approaches and their Use. BETA Working Paper WP-350, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2011)
Fettke, P., Loos, P.: Classification of reference models: a methodology and its application. Information Systems and e-Business Management 1(1), 35–53 (2003)
Scheer, A.W., Nüttgens, M.: ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management. In: van der Aalst, W., Desel, J., Oberweis, A. (eds.) Business Process Management. LNCS, vol. 1806, pp. 376–389. Springer, Heidelberg (2000)
Green, S., Ould, M.A.: The Primacy of Process Architecture. In: CAiSE Workshops (2), pp. 154–159 (2004)
Zlatev, Z., Wombacher, A.: Consistency Between e 3 -value Models and Activity Diagrams in a Multi-perspective Development Method. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds.) OTM 2005. LNCS, vol. 3760, pp. 520–538. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Smirnov, S., Reijers, H.A., Nugteren, T., Weske, M.: Business process model abstraction: theory and practice. Universitätsverlag Potsdam (2010)
Smirnov, S., Reijers, H.A., Weske, M.: A semantic approach for business process model abstraction. In: Mouratidis, H., Rolland, C. (eds.) CAiSE 2011. LNCS, vol. 6741, pp. 497–511. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Decker, G., Weske, M.: Behavioral consistency for B2B process integration. In: Krogstie, J., Opdahl, A.L., Sindre, G. (eds.) CAiSE 2007 and WES 2007. LNCS, vol. 4495, pp. 81–95. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
van der Aalst, W.M.P., Mooij, A.J., Stahl, C., Wolf, K.: Service Interaction: Patterns, Formalization, and Analysis. In: Bernardo, M., Padovani, L., Zavattaro, G. (eds.) SFM 2009. LNCS, vol. 5569, pp. 42–88. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Eid-Sabbagh, RH., Weske, M. (2014). From Process Models to Business Process Architectures: Connecting the Layers. In: Lomuscio, A.R., Nepal, S., Patrizi, F., Benatallah, B., Brandić, I. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2013 Workshops. ICSOC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06859-6_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06859-6_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-06858-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-06859-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)