Ontology-Based Behavioral Constraint Authoring

Ontology-Based Behavioral Constraint Authoring

Abstract

A major approach for formalizing business policies or compliance rules (e.g., stemming from regulatory laws or standards) are behavioral constraints. Flexible business process management approaches such as Adaptive Case Management provide business users the necessary freedom to react to unforeseeable circumstances by ad-hoc changes, but behavioral constraints are often defined and maintained on a technical level which is inaccessible for business users. Consequently, long update cycles of these constraints might result in the enactment of obsolete, incomplete or faulty constraints which hinder the work of the business user instead of supporting it. In this paper, an ontology-based approach for defining and maintaining behavioral constraints in the context of flexible business processes is proposed. The approach aims at enabling business users to take active part in the creation and maintenance of behavioral constraints. The practical applicability of the approach is discussed by means of a realistic scenario on compliance in the context of renovation, repairs, and maintenance of buildings.

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Authors
  • Czepa, Christoph
  • Tran, Huy
  • Zdun, Uwe
  • Tran, Thanh
  • Weiss, Erhard
  • Ruhsam, Christoph
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings
Event Title
2nd International Workshop on Compliance, Evolution and Security in intra- and Cross-Organizational Processes (CeSCoP 2016), 20th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Workshops (EDOCW 2016)
Divisions
Software Architecture
Subjects
Software Engineering
Datenverarbeitungsmanagement
Angewandte Informatik
Informatik in Beziehung zu Mensch und Gesellschaft
Event Location
Vienna, Austria
Event Type
Workshop
Event Dates
05 - 09 Sept 2016
Date
September 2016
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