Existing models for describing a process (such as a business process or a software development process) tend to focus on the \what " or the \how " of the process. For example, a health insurance claim process would typically be described in terms of a number of steps for assessing

, and methods to support the systematic analysis and design of business processes. The framework consists of two main components -- an Actor Dependency model that describes a process organization in terms of intentional dependencies among actors, and an Issue Argumentation model that supports reasoning during

Abstract. We first describe an agent-oriented business modelling technique that enables to create business process and domain models that are executable by software agents. The technique consists of the steps of analysis by goal-based use cases and design by the extended AOR Modelling Language. We

process, we reconstruct the functional and security requirements at organizational level that such a business process was supposed to meet (including the trust relations that existed among the members of the organization). To ensure that the re-engineered business process meets the elicited requirements

between process variants is an important goal that saves the time and efforts of process modelers. In this paper, we present a query-based approach to maintain consistency among process variants. We maintain the link between the variant process models by means of defining process model views. These views

-tributed computing as central IT infrastructure frequently is not available. The rise of numerous approaches targeting at consistency in the B2B area are evidence of these enhanced CRs. This paper refines the Open-edi business transaction model into a B2Bi schema by analyzing abstraction levels, development phases

The field of requirements engineering for business processes has grown during the last several years. As business processes are assumed to fulfil organizational goals, goal models could be transformed into business process models that specify how business processes fulfil the organizational goals

, the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services BPEL4WS [2] belongs to this stack. Due to this layered architecture, the presented method can be focussed on the Web service’s process model in terms of BPEL4WS – without losing generality or practical relevance. The goal Process modeling is one

and integrated with existing approaches to business process modeling. We use a goal-oriented process modeling approach to be able to identify relevant context elements and propose a framework and a meta model for classifying relevant context. These extensions are an essential foundation for the definition

This paper focuses on the ideas that it is important to start with a business process model which fully articulates the vision and goals for the new process (at whichever level the process is within the organisation) when producing software. Furthermore, these goals need to be auditable through