Authors:
Christophe Ponsard
1
and
Robert Darimont
2
Affiliations:
1
CETIC Research Centre, Gosselies and Belgium
;
2
Respect-IT SA, Louvain-la-Neuve and Belgium
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modelling, Goal-oriented Requirements Engineering, Model-Driven System Development, Model Analysis, Model Improvement.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model Transformation
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Models
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Reasoning about Models
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The Business Process Management lifecycle involves identifying, analysing and evolving the design of an organisation’s tasks. Modelling plays a key role in those activities to capture the processes but also the related goals representing the rationale behind them. While some mappings have been defined between such models, they lack guidelines to support analysis or (re)design activities in order to improve processes in an evolving organisation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a two-staged guidance: (1) a lightweight approach leaving the goal model implicit but using goal reasoning techniques; and (2) an heavier approach where an explicit goal model is explicitly built and mapped to support the redesign process. Our work is experimented on a running case study inspired from a logistics system. Although still in progress, we were able to uncover interesting problems and to suggest relevant redesigns.