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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
On Formalizing Inter-process Relationships
Authors : Tri A. Kurniawan, Aditya K. Ghose, Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam
Published in: Business Process Management Workshops
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.