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Towards Supporting Business Process Compliance with Policies

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2017)

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This paper discusses early findings of the research in progress to create an approach to support an organization in bridging the gap between existing business processes and policies. Business processes are valuable assets of any organization, and business process modelling has become the key activity for capturing and analysing business processes. However, advances in technology, growing expectation of openness by research funders, competition, regulations in IT security and privacy, and overall economic situation facilitate emergence of new policies, and urge enterprises to change their business processes to be compliant with the new requirements. The goal of the research is to propose the approach for closing the gap between business process models and legal states of business objects described in policies by means of using Bunge-Wand-Weber model. The approach includes means for explicit definition of legal and illegal state spaces of business objects in (1) policies, and (2) as-is business process models, and compliance checking between state spaces of (1) and (2) to indicate the gap. It is an initial input for building to-be business process models that are complaint with newly imposed policies. As a running example to illustrate the approach a publishing business process of a scholar journal is used. New policies from research funders require Open Access (OA) to all outputs from publicly-funded research, and business processes of publishing scholar journals require changes.

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This research is funded in part by the Latvian Council of Science grant for project No. 342/2012, and in part by the Latvian National research program SOPHIS under grant agreement Nr.10-4/VPP-4/11.

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  1. Institute of Applied Computer Systems, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, Riga, LV-1658, Latvia

    Ludmila Penicina

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  1. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  2. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Charles Møller

  3. Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Atanu Chaudhuri

  4. Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Frantisek Sudzina

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Penicina, L. (2017). Towards Supporting Business Process Compliance with Policies. In: Johansson, B., Møller, C., Chaudhuri, A., Sudzina, F. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64930-6_7

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