Tri A. Kurniawan, Aditya K. Ghose, Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam
Most medium to large organizations support large collections of process designs, often stored in business process repositories. These processes are often inter-dependent. Managing such large collections of processes is not a trivial task. We argue that formalizing and establishing inter-process relationships play a critical role in that task leading to a machinery approach in the process repository management. We consider and propose three kinds of such relationships, namely part-whole, inter-operation and generalization- specialization, including their formal definitions, permitting us to develop a machinery approach. Analysis of the relationships relies on the semantically effects annotated process model in BPMN. This paper presents a rigorous approach to assist the designer to establish inter-process relationships in a process repository. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
Decision Systems Lab., School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; University of Brawijaya, East Java, Indonesia
