The value of business rules in business process modeling has been recognized by several authors: if the knowledge about implicitly present policies and regulations is made explicitly traceable as business rules we can enhance the flexibility of computer-supported business processes. Yet to date it is not fully clear how business rules can be used to model compliant business process models. In t...

For application scenarios such as the management of business process variants or business process quality, business objective models assume the role of formal requirements definitions as in software engineering. However, effective concepts in this area still constitute a gap in the presently available array of business process management methods. To address this issue, this paper develops and s...