Identifying Dependencies in Business Processes

Changes in business processes correlate with changes in dependencies. The fundamental question we deal with in this paper is which dependencies may show up in business processes and how to find those dependencies. This paper presents a generic classification of dependencies that may show up in every situation. All of these dependencies have to be taken care off through coordination mechanisms. It is argued that starting from a classification of dependencies one can search for dependencies that are present in a business process; one can introduce new dependencies, or change old dependencies. In this paper we merely present the classification (not how to use it).