Complexity Metrics for Executable Business Processes

An Ontology for Executable Business Processes

The Web Service Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) is the de facto standard for describing workflow-like compositions of Web services, so-called Web service orchestrations. In this paper an ontology for executable BPEL processes is presented, which reflects both the natural language description and the syntax given in the specification. The ontology makes BPEL process models accessibl...

Complexity Metrics for business Process Models

Business process models, often modelled using graphical languages like UML, serve as a base for communication between the stakeholders in the software development process. To fulfill this purpose, they should be easy to understand and easy to maintain. For this reason, it is useful to have measures that can give us some information about understandability and maintainability of a business proce...

Complexity metrics for formally specified business requirements

According to the Zachman framework for system architecture, business requirements and user information requirements should be separately modelled to enhance the maintainability and adaptability of the information systems and to improve the flexibility of the system development process. The measurement of business requirements is largely an unexplored field since requirements specification measu...

Auto-completion for Executable Business Process Models

This work presents an auto-completion mechanism for supporting the creation of executable business process models. Currently, process modeling tools provide only little support to identify the relevant services that are needed to execute the process model – t he selection of appropriate services is left to the skills of the modeler. A novel solution technique for this problem is proposed here a...

New Audiences for Ontologies: Dealing with Complexity in Business Processes