Behavioural profiles : a relational approach to behaviour consistency [Elektronische Ressource] / Matthias Weidlich. Betreuer: Mathias Weske

B E H AV I O U R A L P R O F I L E Sa relational approach to behaviour consistencymatthias weidlichbusiness process technologyhasso plattner institute, university of potsdampotsdam, germanydissertationzur erlangung des grades einesdoktors der naturwissenschaften– dr. rer. nat. –july 2011                                       Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: URL http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5559/ URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:517‐opus‐55590 http://nbn‐resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517‐opus‐55590 Pour L.H.O.O.Q.A B S T R A C TBusiness Process Management (BPM) emerged as a means tocontrol, analyse, and optimise business operations. Conceptualmodels are of central importance for BPM. Most prominently,process models define the behaviour that is performed to achievea business value. In essence, a process model is a mapping ofproperties of the original business process to the model, createdfor a purpose. Different modelling purposes, therefore, result indifferent models of a business process. Against this background,the misalignment of process models often observed in the fieldof BPM is no surprise. Even if the same business scenario is con-sidered, models created for strategic decision making differ incontent significantly from models created for process automa-tion.