An iterative approach to synthesize business process templates from compliance rules

  • Authors:

  • Ahmed Awad;Rajeev Goré;Zhe Hou;James Thomson;Matthias Weidlich

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt;School of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia;School of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia;School of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia;Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Companies have to adhere to compliance requirements. The compliance analysis of business operations is typically a joint effort of business experts and compliance experts. Those experts need to create a common understanding of business processes to effectively conduct compliance management. In this paper, we present a technique that aims at supporting this process. We argue that process templates generated out of compliance requirements provide a basis for negotiation among business and compliance experts. We introduce a semi-automated and iterative approach to the synthesis of such process templates from compliance requirements expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). We show how generic constraints related to business process execution are incorporated and present criteria that point at underspecification. Further, we outline how such underspecification may be resolved to iteratively build up a complete specification. For the synthesis, we leverage existing work on process mining and process restructuring. However, our approach is not limited to the control-flow perspective, but also considers direct and indirect data-flow dependencies. Finally, we elaborate on the application of the derived process templates and present an implementation of our approach.