Supporting the consistency in multi-perspective Business Process Modeling: A mapping approach

Abstract

The multi-perspective Business Process Modeling (BPM) is grounded upon the idea of constructing distinct and separate models that depict different aspects of the same Business Process (BP). It promotes a comprehensive description of the latter. For an enterprise, such description is crucial for the improvement of its business processes, and hence for remaining competitive. However, none of the modeling languages is endowed with the capability to represent a BP according to all relevant perspectives. A first challenge is then how to improve this capability. At the same time, the multi-perspective BPM is always accompanied with the challenge of managing consistency among the produced models since they are complementary, and consequently share overlapping data. In line with this, this paper presents the proposal of a promising approach addressing these two challenges and based on the mapping between modeling languages.