Analysis and Evaluation of Business Process Modeling Adoption in Collaborative Networks

Besides, knowledge and information enterprises can share Business Processes (BPs) within Collaborative Networks (CNs). Each enterprise has a set of BPs that it can perform, and through developing integrated BPs in the CN they deploy their capacities and capabilities. Selecting and adopting the appropriate BP modelling languages (BPML) for the purpose of formalizing BPs are challenging, because of the variety of existing methods, tools, and standards with different strengths and weaknesses. In surveys published so far on BP modeling mostly, a set of general features of the main BP languages and standards are compared. However, they have not paid attention to the level of different categories of BPMLs. Furthermore, there are no surveys analysing and evaluating the prerequisites to fulfil CN’s requirements. This paper first proposes a set of categories for the main BP languages and standards. Then a novel BP evaluation approach, in CN context is introduced. Finally, different categories are discussed and analysed by addressing their suitability to support CNs.)

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