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Business Process and Business Rule Modeling Languages for Compliance Management: A Representational Analysis
zur Muehlen, M., Indulska, M. and Kamp, G.
Organizations are under increasing scrutiny to document
their compliance to regulatory requirements. To this end,
they have to formally document their operating
procedures to support their compliance management
efforts. Both process modeling languages and rule
modeling languages are candidates for the documentation
of organizational policies and procedures. While both
types of languages are currently used to document
organizational practices, little work has been done to
understand their synergies and overlap. Accordingly, in
this paper we use the Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW)
representation theory as a basis for such an analysis. We
perform a representational analysis of two popular rule
modeling languages, viz., SRML and SBVR. We compare
their representation capabilities with those of four popular
conceptual business process modeling languages, and
focus on the aspects of maximum ontological
completeness and minimum ontological overlap. The
outcome of this study shows that a combination of two
languages, viz. SRML and BPMN, is more suitable for
documenting compliance than any single modeling
language, and that the combination of process and rule
modeling languages shows synergies. |
Cite as: zur Muehlen, M., Indulska, M. and Kamp, G. (2007). Business Process and Business Rule Modeling Languages for Compliance Management: A Representational Analysis. In Proc. Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007 Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 83. Grundy, J., Hartmann, S., Laender, A. H. F., Maciaszek, L. and Roddick, J. F., Eds. ACS. 127-132. |
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