Article in Proceedings INPROC-2010-76

BibliographySchleicher, Daniel; Anstett, Tobias; Leymann, Frank; Schumm, David: Compliant Business Process Design Using Refinement Layers.
In: R. Meersman, T. Dillon et al. (ed.): OTM 2010 Conferences.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
Springer Verlag, October 27, 2010.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsCompliance, Refinement, BPEL, business process
Abstract

In recent years compliance has emerged as one of the big IT challenges enterprises are faced with. The management of a multitude of regulations and the complexity of current business processes are problems that need to be addressed.

In this paper we present an approach based on so-called compliance templates to develop and manage compliant business processes involving different stakeholders.

We introduce the concept of a refinement process. In the refinement process each compliance template is refined in a layered way to get an executable business process. The refinement steps are executed on refinement layers by different stakeholders.

Compliance constraints are used to restrict the way a compliance template can be refined. Introduced in a certain refinement layer of the refinement process, compliance constraints are propagated to higher refinement layers.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateAugust 3, 2010
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