Most medium to large organizations support large collections of process designs, often stored in business process repositories. These processes are often inter-dependent. Managing such large collections of processes is not a trivial task. We argue that formalizing and establishing inter-process relationships play a critical role in that task leading to a machinery approach in the process repository management. We consider and propose three kinds of such relationships, namely part-whole, inter-operation and generalization- specialization, including their formal definitions, permitting us to develop a machinery approach. Analysis of the relationships relies on the semantically effects annotated process model in BPMN. This paper presents a rigorous approach to assist the designer to establish inter-process relationships in a process repository. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Kurniawan, T. A., Ghose, A. K., Lê, L. S., & Dam, H. K. (2012). On formalizing inter-process relationships. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 100 LNBIP, pp. 75–86). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28115-0_8
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