Process Adaptation Patterns for Cross-Organizational Business Process Modeling

Abstract

Nowadays organizations collaborate through cross-organizational business processes. These business processes require the coordination of several partners who are often geographically dispersed. Modeling such processes is complex and requires that designers have extensive experience in particular when organizations’ processes are incompatible. This paper addresses the problem of modeling cross-organization processes out of collection of organizations private process models. To this end, we propose a set of process adaptation patterns that connect private processes and resolve interoperability issues. Proposed patterns are formalized with workflow net.