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Modeling the Resource Perspective of Business Process Compliance Rules with the Extended Compliance Rule Graph

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2014, EMMSAD 2014)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 175))

Abstract

Process-aware information systems must ensure compliance of the business processes they implement with global compliance rules related to security constraints, domain-specific guidelines, standards, and laws. Usually, respective compliance rules cover multiple process perspectives; i.e., they not only deal with the control flow perspective that restricts the sequence in which the process activities shall be executed, but also refer to other process perspectives like data, time, and resource. Although there are various approaches for specifying compliance rules (e.g., based on temporal logic and narrative patterns), only few languages allow for the visual modeling of compliance rules. In turn, existing visual languages focus on the control flow perspective, but treat the other process perspectives as second class citizens. To remedy this drawback, this paper presents an approach for the visual modeling of business process compliance rules, including the resource perspective. The suitability of this approach is evaluated in a case study that was performed by business analysts in the healthcare domain.

This work was done within the research project C3Pro funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under project number RE 1402/2-1.

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    Franziska Semmelrodt, David Knuplesch & Manfred Reichert

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Semmelrodt, F., Knuplesch, D., Reichert, M. (2014). Modeling the Resource Perspective of Business Process Compliance Rules with the Extended Compliance Rule Graph. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2014 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_4

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