Economic Assessment and Analysis of Business Process Compliance

In many industries, compliance with regulatory requirements in business processes, or so-called business process compliance, has become a cost-intensive task due to continually intensified regulation. For companies to operate profitably despite such intensive regulation, approaches to the economic assessment, analysis, and selection of process-based compliance measures are needed.
This project addresses that need by designing, implementing, and evaluating:

• A mathematical approach for the economic assessment of business process compliance based on patterns of basic control flows of business processes (i.e., basic control flow patterns); and
• An information technology-based approach for the economic analysis and selection of process-based compliance measures based on domain-specific log files (i.e., extensible event streams).

Based on a design theory, the approaches are implemented as software prototypes and evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The software artefact EconBPC enables the economic assessment and analysis of business process compliance utilizing eXtensible Event Streams (XES).The underlying assessment approach, its basic concepts and its application by means of an example are described in [1]. The design principles of EconBPC, the software architecture of the prototype, its implementation as an R application and the summative evaluation are described in [2].

References:

[1] Kuehnel, Stephan and Zasada, Andrea (2018): "An Approach Toward the Economic Assessment of Business Process Compliance", In: Woo C., Lu J., Li Z., Ling T., Li G., Lee M. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling, 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018), Fifth Inernational Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MREBA), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 11158, Springer, Cham, pp. 228-238, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01391-2_28 .

[2] Kuehnel, Stephan; Trang, Simon Thanh-Nam, Lindner, Sebastian (2019): Conceptualization, Design and Implementation of EconBPC - A Software Artifact for the Economic Analysis of Business Process Compliance, in: A. H. F. Laender et al. (Eds.): Conceptual Modeling, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2019), Salvador, Brazil, November 4-7, 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11788, Springer, Cham, pp. 378-386.