Modeling Human Aspects of Business Processes - A View-Based, Model-Driven Approach

Human participation in business processes needs to be addressed in process modeling. BPEL4People with WS-HumanTask covers this concern in the context of BPEL. Bound to specific workflow technology this leads to a number of problems. Firstly, maintaining and migrating processes to new or similar technologies is expensive. Secondly, the low-level, technical standards make it hard to communicate the process models to human domain experts. Model-driven approaches can help to easier cope with technology changes, and present the process t a higher level of abstraction than offered by the technology standards. In this paper, we extend the model-driven approach with a view-based framework for business process modeling, in which models can be viewed at different ion levels and different concerns of a model can be viewed separately. Our approach enables developers to work with meta-models that represent a technical view on the human participation, whereas human domain experts can have an abstrac...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ECMDAFA
• Authors: Ta'id Holmes, Huy Tran, Uwe Zdun, Schahram Dustdar
• Keywords: ECMDAFA 2008, Hardware, Human Domain Experts, Human Participation, Process Modeling