BPM05 Proceedings, 2005
One limitation of current business process (BP) initiatives, e.g. [1, 2, 3], is their lack of positioning of BP models within a broader enterprise model covering organisational structures, policies and contracts. This paper partly addresses this limitation by applying our community model [4] to a behavioural style typical of BP approaches. The aim of the paper is to augment BPs with policy expressions to support monitoring of participants’ behaviour against agreed policies. Section 2 introduces key concepts from ebXML’s BP specification (ebBP) [1] and BP modelling notation (BPMN) [3] of relevance for business policies, and illustrate them with a simple example (Fig. 1). Section 3 introduces our policy concepts and maps them onto the relevant BPMN and ebBP concepts. Section 4 discusses open issues and future work.