Business Process Reusability
by
Dinh Khoa Nguyen
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last modified
Apr 26, 2012 11:57
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Definitions
Term: Business Process Reusability |
Domain: Cross-cutting issues | ||||
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Engineering and Design (KM-ED) |
Adaptation and Monitoring (KM-AM) |
Quality Definition, Negotiation and
Assurance (KM-QA) |
Generic (domain independent) |
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D o m a i n : L a y e r s |
Business Process Management (KM-BPM) |
Business process reusability is about
the ability to develop reusable Process Fragments and use them multiple
times within the same process or across multiple different processes.
If a process fragment needs to be changed it is not required to go
through all usages of that process fragment to apply the change.
Writing process fragments that can be reused in different places is
desired practice especially in case of complex and large business
processes. Reuse of business process has not be studied intensively in the area of BPM; nevertheless a few existing approaches can be classified in three main classes: 1. Reuse in business process modeling: business process modeling caters for design of processes for reuse and composing new processes from reused process fragments. Both aspects are to be addressed in a lifecycle model for process fragments. 2. Semantics in business reuse: to increase the level of reusability of business processes, their semantics must be generalized and made understandable in various usage Contexts. 3. Business process patterns: cater for reuse of proven process skeletons that can be customized and applied within various application domains. [PO-JRA-2.1.1] |
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Service Composition and
Coordination (KM-SC) |
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Service Infrastructure (KM-SI) |
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Generic (domain independent) |
Competencies
- Tilburg: Business Process Management; http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/eriss/research/; Khoa Nguyen, Oktay Turetken, Mike Papazoglou
- USTUTT: Business Process Management; http://www.iaas.uni-stuttgart.de/indexE.php;
Frank Leymann, Dimka Karastoyanova
References
- [PO-JRA-2.1.1] Survey on Business Process Management