Extracting reusable fragments from business process using BPMN

Abstract

During the last years, companies are developing a growing interest in improving the efficiency and quality of their internal business processes. The need of reuse of some business part to fulfill compagnie's requirements leads to the need of extracting business fragments from business process model. The aim of this paper is to propose an approach for identifying business fragments from business process model using BPMN. Our approach is based on variability which is expressed in terms of variants and variation points. Applying this approach we can analyze variability in the model in order to extract business fragments that can be reused.