Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-70

BibliographySchleicher, Daniel; Anstett, Tobias; Leymann, Frank; Mietzner, Ralph: Maintaining Compliance in Customizable Process Models.
In: Meersman, Robert (ed.); Dillon, Tharam (ed.); Herrero, Pilar (ed.): Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2009).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 5870, pp. 60-75, english.
Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, November 3, 2009.
ISBN: 978-3-642-05147-0.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationOTM 2009 Conferences
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsCompliance; Business process modeling
Abstract

Compliance of business processes has gained importance during the last years. The growing number of internal and external regulations that companies need to obey has led to this state. This paper presents a practical concept of ensuring compliance during design time of customizable business processes.

We introduce the concept of a business process template that implicitly contains compliance constraints as well as points of variability. We further present an algorithm that ensures that these constraints cannot be violated. We also show how these algorithms can be used to check whether a customization of this process template is valid regarding these compliance constraints. So the designer of a business process, in contrast to the template designer, does not have to worry about compliance of the eventual process.

In a final step we show how these general concepts can be applied to WS-BPEL.

Contactdaniel.schleicher#n.o.s.p.a.m@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)MASTER
Entry dateAugust 24, 2009
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