A survey on reuse in the business process management domain

Fantinato, Marcelo; Toledo, Maria Cristina Motta de; Thom, Lucinéia Heloisa; Gimenes, Itana Maria de Souza; Rocha, Roberto dos Santos; Garcia, Denise Hortência Lopes

doi:10.1504/ijbpim.2012.047913

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“…We have searched systematic mapping studies and literature reviews in the field to analyse the results obtained and make comparisons with our findings. As far as we are aware, As far as we are aware, [30] is the only survey in the field of business process variability, with a mainly technical view on the subject, exploring process reuse techniques and their limitations. Our work provides a wider view of the field, not only addressing approaches for process variability management but also providing a theoretical synthesis of this phenomenon and shedding light on research opportunities.…”

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A Systematic Mapping Study on Business Process Variability

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Business Process Management aligns organisational strategy and business operation. The dynamic environment within which organisations operate promotes changes in business processes, in a phenomenon known as business process variability. The goal of this research is reviewing business process variability literature to comprehend this phenomenon and analyse its theoretical foundation. Through a systematic mapping study, 80 primary studies acted as sources of evidence to answer three research questions. By summarizing this theoretical background, we establish a conceptual synthesis of business process variability. We equally describe business process variability approaches and observe whether these were empirically assessed. Finally, we discuss research opportunities in the field. Our study shows that concepts in business process variability domain are used in an inconsistent manner, demanding a common vocabulary. A significant number of approaches is available, but most of them lack empirical studies. Additionally, our findings provide a diagnosis of the major challenges in the field.

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A Systematic Mapping Study on Business Process Variability

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“…For example, confidentiality and integrity are two supplementing security requirements that aim to prevent unauthorized access and modification for system resources. Moreover, since business projects within the same domain can share many procedural business practices [23], some data protection patterns can be defined in a domain-specific way to allow their reuse in future business projects within the same domain. Thereby, requirements engineers do not need to create patterns for all the elicited requirements every time a new business project starts.…”

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“…A common practice is to reuse procedural processes from already existing business process models when designing a business process model for a new business project within the same domain. The main reason is the shared business needs between stakeholders of different projects or applications within the same domain [23]. For example, in Fig.…”

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A semi-automated BPMN-based framework for detecting conflicts between security, data-minimization, and fairness requirements

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Requirements are inherently prone to conflicts. Security, data-minimization, and fairness requirements are no exception. Importantly, undetected conflicts between such requirements can lead to severe effects, including privacy infringement and legal sanctions. Detecting conflicts between security, data-minimization, and fairness requirements is a challenging task, as such conflicts are context-specific and their detection requires a thorough understanding of the underlying business processes. For example, a process may require anonymous execution of a task that writes data into a secure data storage, where the identity of the writer is needed for the purpose of accountability. Moreover, conflicts not arise from trade-offs between requirements elicited from the stakeholders, but also from misinterpretation of elicited requirements while implementing them in business processes, leading to a non-alignment between the data subjects' requirements and their specifications. Both types of conflicts are substantial challenges for conflict detection. To address these challenges, we propose a BPMN-based framework that supports: (i) the design of business processes considering security, data-minimization and fairness requirements, (ii) the encoding of such requirements as reusable, domain-specific patterns, (iii) the checking of alignment between the encoded requirements and annotated BPMN models based on these patterns, and (iv) the detection of conflicts between the specified requirements in the BPMN models based on a catalog of domain-independent anti-patterns. The security requirements were reused from SecBPMN2, a security-oriented BPMN 2.0 extension, while the fairness and data-minimization parts are new. For formulating our patterns and anti-patterns, we extended a graphical query language called SecBPMN2-Q. We report on the feasibility and the usability of our approach based on a case study featuring a healthcare management system, and an experimental user study.

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“…As stated in the survey of Fantinato et al (2012), major challenges in the field of business process variability modelling are related to the reaction time of process changes and of the creation and selection of the right business process variants, which are also main topics in our framework since the time to adopt the IT infrastructure to the changed business processes can be reduced with the new framework. Derguech (2010) presents a framework for the systematic reuse of process models.…”

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A Framework for Process Driven Software Configuration

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Pühringer

Potzmader³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design

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Business processes have proven to be essential for organisations to be highly flexible and competitive in today's markets. However, good process management is not enough to survive in a market if the according IT landscape is not aligned to the business processes. Especially industries focused on software products are facing big problems if the according processes are not aligned to the overall software system architecture. Often, a lot of development resources are spent for features which are never addressed by any business goals, leading to unnecessary development costs. In this paper, a framework for a business process driven software product line configuration will be presented, to provide a systematic way to configure software toolchains.

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A survey on reuse in the business process management domain

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

A Systematic Mapping Study on Business Process Variability

A Systematic Mapping Study on Business Process Variability

A semi-automated BPMN-based framework for detecting conflicts between security, data-minimization, and fairness requirements

A Framework for Process Driven Software Configuration

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