Business process compliance through reusable units of compliant processes

  • Authors:

  • David Schumm;Oktay Turetken;Natallia Kokash;Amal Elgammal;Frank Leymann;Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;European Research Institute in Service Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands;European Research Institute in Service Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;European Research Institute in Service Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Compliance management is essential for ensuring that organizational business processes and supporting information systems are in accordance with a set of prescribed requirements originating from laws, regulations, and various legislative or technical documents such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act or ISO 17799. As the violation of such requirements may lead to significant punishment for an organization, compliance management should be supported at the very early stages of business process development. In this paper, we present an integrated approach to compliance management that helps process designers to adhere to compliance requirements relevant for their processes. Firstly, we introduce a conceptual model for specifying compliance requirements originating from various compliance sources. Secondly, we propose a framework for augmenting business processes with reusable fragments to ensure process compliance to certain requirements by design. Furthermore, we discuss the formalization of compliance requirements using mathematical logics and integrate the framework for process reuse with automated software verification tools.