My PhD Thesis

I'm finishing to write my PhD dissertation entitled:
Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design Methodology
I will discuss my thesis in January 2009

-- mchinosi

Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes

Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes

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Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes

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Often, the modeled business processes involve sensible information whose disclosure is usually regulated by privacy policies. As such, the interaction between business processes and privacy policies is a critical issue worth to be investigated. Towards this end, we introduce a data model for BPMN and a corresponding XML-based representation (called BPeX) which we use to check whether a BPeX-represented business process is compliant with a P3P privacy policy. Our checking procedures are very efficient and require standard XML technology, such as XPath.

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BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability

BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version

From: mchinosi,
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BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version

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Updated Version of the proceedings published version

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On April 21-23, 2008 I will be in Washington DC at Architecture and Process conference to present a panel on XPDL weakenesses.
Here are the main ones I found starting from the analysis of the example presented on XPDL specification document [WFMC-TC-1025]:

• an high complexity of the diagram
• a great fragmentation of the information
• a weak referential integrity (there are no unique IDs inside the XML-Schema definition)
• very complex queries
  

On BPeX project page it is possible to download a more detailed description of these points.

Fig. 1: EOrder main process

Fig. 2: The XPDL version

Fig. 3: The BPeX version

-- mchinosi