An Extension of BPMN Meta-model for Evaluation of Business Processes

Abstract

-Business process modeling is used for better understanding and communication of company's processes. Mostly, business process modeling is discussed from the information system development perspective. Execution of a business process involves various factors (costs and time) which are important and should be represented in business process models. Controlling of business units uses post execution analysis for detection of failures for improvement. The process models conceived for information system development are not sufficient for post execution analysis. This paper focuses on the challenges of business process modeling in the post execution context. We provide a meta model for evaluation of a business process and discuss BPMN in this context. We also extend existing BPMN meta model for performance analysis of business processes. The proposed extensions are presented with the help of an example.

An Analytical Business Process Modelling Language: An Illustrative Example

“…Visualization and representation of processes are discussed in Section III, where we also discuss the need of a modelling language for performance analysis. In this paper, we extend our earlier work [11,14] with more formal specification of analytical business process modelling language. We discuss our proposed modelling language in Section IV and explain it with the help of a case study in Section V using business process modelling notations (BPMN).…”

“…The effective utilization of resources and structure of tasks are important for improvement. In [14], we have discussed different phases of business process lifecycle from evaluation and improvement perspective. Enterprises want to improve their business processes.…”

“…Here, we provide different patterns for better understanding and representation of business process for performance evaluation. In [14], we have extended the BPMN meta model for performance evaluation of business processes after execution. Similarly, there are also some other attempts to extend BPMN models in different dimension like knowledge dimension [18] and modeling process goals and its measures in [10].…”

Obteniendo Casos de Uso centrados en la Calidad de los Datos desde Procesos de Negocio descritos con BPMN

“…BPMN ha demostrado una gran expresividad, que además puede ser extendida para dar cabida a nuevos aspectos relacionados con los BP. Entre las extensiones propuestas en la literatura se pueden mencionar algunas orientadas a: expresar algunas necesidades de los clientes, tales como tiempo, costo y fiabilidad (Saeedi, Zhao, & Falcone Sampaio, 2010), especificar propiedades no funcionales como desempeño y fiabilidad (Bocciarelli & D'Ambrogio, 2011), modelar requisitos de seguridad en BP (Rodríguez, Fernández-Medina, & Piattini, 2007a), representar explícitamente restricciones legales (Goldner & Papproth, 2011), analizar el desempeño de los procesos de negocio (Lodhi, Veit, & Saake, 2011) y expresar requisitos de calidad de datos (Rodríguez et al, 2012), entre otras.…”

Decomposition of business process models into reusable sub-diagrams

“…Business process participants, which can either be entities within an organisation or different collaborators in a process [21] are represented by pools. Sub-partitions of a pool, which represent specific objects or roles, are called lanes.…”