TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a reusable business process modelling approach
AU - da Silveira, Denis Silva
AU - Loiola, Eliane Maria
AU - Araujo, João
AU - Moreira, Ana
AU - Fernandes, Pedro
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UID%2FCEC%2F04516%2F2019/PT#
This work was partially financed by CAPES (Brazil – process BEX 0082/15-5) and CNPq/MCTI No. 25/2015 (Brazil – process 444637/2015-0) and supported by Central Bank of Brazil and NOVA LINCS Research Laboratory (Ref. UID/CEC/04516/2019).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Business processes reuse is key for more efficient business process models used during requirements elicitation. A configurable process model specifies multiple alternatives of a business process model, identifying variabilities and commonalities in a business domain. Reusable business processes models can be achieved through process patterns that must preserve semantics after model composition. Current approaches lack systematic and pattern-based mechanisms for the construction of a configurable process model. This paper defines an approach to build and configure a process-oriented feature model (POFM) aiming at representing a family of business process models by means of its reusable process modules. Modules may be concrete or abstract, and composed via mandatory, optional, alternative and multiple relationships. POFM captures a business process family, and the configuration process maintains the semantic properties of business process models.
AB - Business processes reuse is key for more efficient business process models used during requirements elicitation. A configurable process model specifies multiple alternatives of a business process model, identifying variabilities and commonalities in a business domain. Reusable business processes models can be achieved through process patterns that must preserve semantics after model composition. Current approaches lack systematic and pattern-based mechanisms for the construction of a configurable process model. This paper defines an approach to build and configure a process-oriented feature model (POFM) aiming at representing a family of business process models by means of its reusable process modules. Modules may be concrete or abstract, and composed via mandatory, optional, alternative and multiple relationships. POFM captures a business process family, and the configuration process maintains the semantic properties of business process models.
KW - Bpmn
KW - Business process composition
KW - Business process family
KW - Business process management notation
KW - Business process modelling
KW - Configurable process model
KW - Feature model
KW - Pofm
KW - Process models reuse
KW - Process pattern
KW - Process variability
KW - Process-oriented feature model
U2 - 10.1504/ijbpim.2020.117150
DO - 10.1504/ijbpim.2020.117150
M3 - Article
SN - 1741-8763
VL - 10
SP - 104
EP - 114
JO - International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
JF - International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
IS - 2
ER -