Cross-organizational and context-sensitive modeling of organizational dependencies in C -ORG

Abstract

Almost every application used to run a business relies on a model of the organization structure, the roles and the actors in order to define access rights or assign tasks. This article proposes a novel approach to organizational modeling. It also describes a way to connect internal and external organizational models in order to implement cross-organizational processes. It demonstrates the approach on two examples. One of them is a cross-organizational business process and the other a joint research project. The paper includes a description of the metamodel that constitutes the approach for context-sensitive modeling. It shows concrete language expressions that describe sets of actors and how these expressions are interpreted on the organizational model. The article concludes with a short overview of a prototypical implementation of the system C -ORG. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.