Detecting the Effects of Changes on the Compliance of Cross-organizational Business Processes

Knuplesch, David and Fdhila, Walid and Reichert, Manfred and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie (2015) Detecting the Effects of Changes on the Compliance of Cross-organizational Business Processes. In: 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2015), 19-22 October 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Abstract

An emerging challenge for collaborating business partners is to properly define and evolve their cross-organizational processes with respect to imposed global compliance rules. Since compliance verification is known to be very costly, reducing the number of compliance rules to be rechecked in the context of process changes will be crucial. Opposed to intra-organizational processes, however, change effects cannot be easily assessed in such distributed scenarios, where partners only provide restricted public views and assertions on their private processes. Even if local process changes are invisible to partners, they might affect the compliance of the cross-organizational process with the mentioned rules. This paper provides an approach for ensuring compliance when evolving a cross-organizational process. For this purpose, we construct qualified dependency graphs expressing relationships between process activities, process assertions, and compliance rules. Based on such graphs, we are able to determine the subset of compliance rules that might be affected by a particular change. Altogether, our approach increases the efficiency of compliance checking in cross-organizational settings.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2015 11:52
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2015 09:15
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/1181

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