Integrated privacy modeling and validation for business process models

  • Authors:
  • Sören Witt;Sven Feja;Andreas Speck;Christian Prietz

  • Affiliations:
  • Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany;Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany;Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany;Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD), Kiel, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Joint EDBT/ICDT Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Privacy is an important issue, inducing a strong interest in correct holistic treatment of data in processes and systems of enterprises. Beside avoiding infringements, trust in the correct holistic treatment of data increases the overall trust in an enterprise, gaining a competitive advantage. More and more, enterprises utilize business process models (BPMs) to specify, document or optimize (existing) processes and systems. Hence, such BPMs also offer the chance to analyze and validate specifications or existing systems with respect to privacy requirements. In this contribution we present the concept of Integrated Privacy Modeling and Validation and its implementation in our BPM validation and verification framework Business Application Modeler (BAM). BAM enables the automatic validation of BPMs against graphically specified, formal privacy requirements, which can reduce error-prone and expensive manual checking. Furthermore, BAM provides the MultiView concept which allows the definition of concentrated and reduced, privacy related views on BPMs.