A Framework to Support the Assignment of the Active Structure and Behavior in Business Process Modeling

Abstract

Despite the importance of the relations between the organizational domain and the business process domain, many of the current enterprise architecture and business process modeling approaches lack support for the expressiveness of a number of important active structure allocation scenarios. This paper aims to overcome these limitations by proposing a framework for active structure assignment that can be applied to existing enterprise architecture and business process modeling approaches. This framework enriches the expressiveness of existing techniques and supports the definition of precise active structure assignments. It is designed such that it should be applicable to a number of enterprise architecture and business process modeling languages, i.e., one should be able to use and apply different (enterprise and business process) modeling languages to the framework with minor changes. We show the application of this general framework to BPMN.