Relating Business Process Models to Goal-Oriented Requirements Models in KAOS

Abstract

Business Process Management (BPM) has many anticipated benefits including accelerated process improvement, at the operational level, with the use of highly configurable and adaptive "process aware" information systems [1] [2]. The facility for improved agility fosters the need for continual measurement and control of business processes to assess and manage their effective evolution, in-line with organizational objectives. This paper proposes the GoalBPM methodology for relating business process models (modeled using BPMN) to high-level stakeholder goals (modeled using KAOS). We propose informal (manual) techniques (with likely future formalism) for establishing and verifying this relationship, even in dynamic environments where essential alterations to organizational goals and/or process constantly emerge. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication DetailsThis conference paper was originally published as Koliadis, G . The facility for improved agility fosters the need for continual measurement and control of business processes to assess and manage their effective evolution, in-line with organizational objectives. This paper proposes the GoalBPM methodology for relating business process models (modeled using BPMN) to high-level stakeholder goals (modeled using KAOS). We propose informal (manual) techniques (with likely future formalism) for establishing and verifying this relationship, even in dynamic environments where essential alterations to organizational goals and/or process constantly emerge.

Strategic Alignment of Business Processes

“…Accumulation of effects and QoS values have been discussed in previous work [95,98,115,148] and previously in §3.4.1, the result of which is a consistent set of effects and QoS values that give a semantic meaning to a process model. An accumulation function accumulate takes as input a trace σ and returns a tuple Υ, ε,Γ which are the set of cumulative QoS values, the set of cumulative effects and the cumulative customer state respectively.…”

“…Our framework differs from the framework for alignment in [116] not only through much more detailed and extensible formal descriptions, but also in that we use the strategy modeling language as a basis for goal relations and we also consider ranked realization. The precursor to [116] is described in [115] where Koliadis and Ghose introduce the notion of relating goals (functional goals -from an and/or decomposition tree) with the accumulated effects of processes. This article describes the fundamental relationship between goals and effects showing how processes are related to requirements.…”

“…The problem for these activities is in defining processes that can be used in varying contexts based on customer demands and intentions [80,116,211]. Being able to dynamically construct a process that effectively works to satisfy consumer goals as well as business goals taking into consideration operational and historic context is necessary in a business setting [80,115,116].…”

Towards Requirements Elicitation in Service-Oriented Business Networks Using Value and Goal Modelling

“…Then, they propose detailed mappings to translate the semantically enriched goal models into business process models. In (Koliadis & Ghose 2006), a methodology is proposed for relating business process models to high-level stakeholder goals. They use BPMN to represent business models and KAOS and i* to express goals.…”

A Unified RGPS-Based Approach Supporting Service-Oriented Process Customization

“…However, these works do not consider service-oriented process customization in terms of various end user requirements. The works [3,9] establish relationships between process models and requirements models such as KAOS and i*, followed by generating, validating and configuring process models. Compared with these works, our work will focus on customizing service-based processes in a holistic way by connecting the requirements models (role & goal models), process models, and services.…”