| Desiderata for Languages to be Used in the Defnition of Reference Business Processes |
| Received:September 01, 2007 Revised:December 08, 2007 Download PDF |
| Liming Zhu,Leon J. Osterweil,Mark Staples,Udo Kannengiesser,Borislava I. Simidchieva. Desiderata for Languages to be Used in the Defnition of Reference Business Processes. International Journal of Software and Informatics, 2007,1(1):37~65 |
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| Liming Zhu Leon J. Osterweil Mark Staples Udo Kannengiesser Borislava I. Simidchieva |
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| Fund:NICTA is funded by the Australian Government's Department of Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts and the Australian Research Council through Backing Australia's Ability and the ICT Research Centre of Excellence Programs.This research was also supported by the US National Science Foundation under Award Nos. CCR-0204321 and CCR-0205575. |
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| Abstract:In many modern enterprises, explicit business process de nitions facilitate the pursuit of business goals in such ways as best practice reuse, process analysis, processe ciency improvement, and automation. Most real-world business processes are large and
complex. Successfully capturing, analysing, and automating these processes requires process de nition languages that capture a variety of process aspects with a wealth of details. Mostcurrent process modelling languages, such as Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN),focus on structural control ows among activities while providing inadequate support for other process de nition needs. In this paper, we rst illustrate these inadequacies through our experiences with a collection of real-world reference business processes from the Aus-tralian lending industry. We observe that the most signi cant inadequacies include lack of resource management, exception handling, process variation, and data ow integration.These identi ed shortcomings led us to consider the Little-JIL language as a vehicle forde ning business processes. Little-JIL addresses the afore-mentioned inadequacies with a number of innovative features. Our investigation concludes that these innovative features are e ective in addressing a number of key reference business process de nition needs. |
| keywords:business process process de nition language BPMN Little-JIL work-ow |
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