Improving Workflow Project Quality Via Business Process Patterns Based on Organizational Structure Aspects

The correct definition of business process is a key to achieve quality in workflow project. Accordingly, this paper proposes business (sub)process candidate patterns to be used in business process modelling. The candidate patterns differ from other proposals first because they focus on task flow descriptions and second because they are based on organizational structural aspects. Our proposal is to store the patterns in the catalogue of the Transactional Metamodel of Business Process introduced in this paper. The metamodel makes feasible the modelling of business process through the use of business subprocess patterns based on organizational structural aspects. An additionally feature of the metamodel supports the generation of business subprocess patterns through the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS).

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