On extending support for modeling artifact-centric business processes

Nowadays, businesses are forced by economic constraints and competitive business environment; therefore, they seek for an innovative improvement of their business operations in order to outperform their competitors. This brings in challenges to the modeling, design, and management of complex and dynamic requirements of business processes. The objective of the research was to tackle three most important issues in modern business process management. The outcome of the research is a novel framework that provides the following features to businesses. First, they can systematically reuse their existing business processes in a more efficient way. Second, they can achieve the highest degree of flexibility, autonomy, and efficiency while they are collaborating in a business process. Last, they can automatically visualize their business processes and effectively develop web-based user interfaces to support interaction between users and processes in a collaborative environment. In the business point of view, an organization that uses this framework will be beneficial from more cost-savings and operational innovations.