Designing and enacting cross organisational business processes [Elektronische Ressource] : a model driven, ontology-based approach / Stephan Roser

DesigningandEnactingCross organisationalBusinessProcesses:AModel driven,Ontology basedApproachStephanRoserDissertationProgrammingDistributedSystemsDepartmentofComputerScienceUniversityofAugsburgiiSupervisor: Prof.Dr.BernhardBauer(UniversityofAugsburg)Advisors: Prof.Dr.JörgP.Müller(ClausthalUniversityofTechnology)Prof.Dr.WolfgangReif(UniversityofAugsburg)thDayofdefense: 9 May2008Copyright©StephanRoser,Augsburg,March2008AbstractUnder the pressure of globalization, companies are urged to constantly adapt to newmarketsituationsandcompetitorsinnovations. Focusingontheircorebusinessandcorecompetencies,theyengageinCross organisationalBusinessProcesses( CBPs)withnewpartners all over the world in ever changing constellations. Companies are organizedinto global networks and outsource those activities that can be performed more quicklyand effectively or at lower costs, by others. These developments create new challengesfor enterprise Information and Communication Technology (ICT), requiring ICT sys tems to support constantly changing enterprise collaboration relationships and to createapplication systems that support or automate business process enactment starting frombusinessleveldescriptionsandmodelsofCBPs.Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) provides techniques to realize andautomate the propagation of changes at the business level to the technical level.