Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Formal refinement patterns for goal-driven requirements elaboration
SIGSOFT '96 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Compliance checking between business processes and business contracts
EDOC '06 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
Auditing Business Process Compliance
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Process SEER: A Tool for Semantic Effect Annotation of Business Process Models
EDOC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (edoc 2009)
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
A conceptually rich model of business process compliance
APCCM '10 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 110
An iterative approach for business process template synthesis from compliance rules
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
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Solutions to the problem of deriving business processes from goals are critical in addressing a variety of challenges facing the services and business process management community, and in particular, the challenge of quickly generating large numbers of effective process designs (often a bottleneck in industry-scale deployment of BPM). The problem is similar to the planning problem that has been extensively studied in the artificial intelligence (AI) community. However, the direct application of AI planning techniques places an onerous burden on the analyst, and has proven to be difficult in practice. We propose a practical yet rigorous (semi-automated) algorithm for business process derivation from goals. Our approach relies on being able to decompose process goals to a more refined collection of sub-goals whose ontology is aligned with that of the effects of available tasks which can be used to construct the business process. Once process goals are refined to this level, we are able to generate a process design using a procedure that leverages our earlier work on semantic effect annotation of process designs. We illustrate our ideas throughout this paper with a real-life running example, and also present a proof-of-concept prototype implementation.