Analysis of heuristics to identify crosscutting concerns in business process models

  • Authors:
  • Fabiana Jack Nogueira Santos;Claudia Cappelli;Flávia Santoro;Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite;Thaís Vasconcelos Batista

  • Affiliations:
  • UNIRIO, Brazil;UNIRIO, Brazil;UNIRIO, Brazil;PUC-Rio, Brazil;UFRN, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

One of the results of BPM (Business Process Management) is the knowledge about the business processes performed by an organization. Conventional process modeling notations and languages are used to document these processes. Principles for functional decomposition and organization of elements are generally applied. However, they are not enough to separate orthogonal concerns that appear within different elements of the same process or in different process. Incorporation of aspect-orientation ideas in the modularization of business process models is a new line of research to address this problem. In such context most of the guidelines to aspect identification are dependent on the idea of concepts repetition. In this paper we analyze some heuristics used to identify the crosscutting concerns in business process models to show that repetition criteria is not enough to identify an aspect.