Verification of Business Process Integration Options

Abstract. We propose a meta-meta framework architecture for supporting the behaviour based integration of two business processes. The meta-meta level provides basic integration operators to the system administrator to create integration options for specific domains. Based on semantic relationships between nodes of two business processes these integration options are executed and transform parts of the business processes. The outcome of the business process transformation is an integrated business process. Because of the arbitrary combination of basic integration operators, a potentially infinite set of integration options may be applicable, and some of these may lead to an incorrect business process. We analyze our framework according to a set of consistency criteria and propose verification and validation mechanisms to keep the integrated model consistent.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BPM
• Authors: Georg Grossmann, Michael Schrefl, Markus Stumptner
• Keywords: Basic Integration Operators, BPM 2006, Business, Business Processes, Integration Options