Compliant business process design using refinement layers

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Schleicher;Tobias Anstett;Frank Leymann;David Schumm

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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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.