A rule-based approach to model and verify flexible business processes

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

Efficient organisations need to ensure that their business processes are flexible so that these processes can easily accommodate changes in regulations and policies. Appropriate techniques to model and verify these processes are required. In this paper, we present a rule-based approach, which is built upon the event-condition-action model (ECA) and supported by a rule-based business process definition language (RbBPDL). In this approach, rules, which specify business processes, are represented using the event-condition-action-post- condition-event (ECAPE) model. This allows translating a process into a graph of rules that is used to check how flexible a business process is, and estimating this process's cost of changes. This cost is based on a rule change cost model (R2CM) that will be presented in this paper. In addition, the ECAPE model allows the translation of a process into a coloured Petri net, called ECAPE net, in order to verify process functioning prior to any deployment. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..

ISSN

1741-8763

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Volume

5

Issue

4

First Page

287

Last Page

307

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

Business processes modelling, Business processes verification, Declarative language, Flexible modelling, Reaction rule, Rule graph

Scopus ID

80055070936

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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