Semantic compliance management in business process management

Abstract

Processes count to the most important assets of companies. Ensuring the compliance of processes to legal regulations, governance guidelines, and strategic business requirements is indispensable to controlling business behavior. Implementing business process compliance requires means for modeling and enforcing compliance measures. In this work, we motivate the need for automation in compliance management and introduce the role of policies. We propose a policy-based framework for business process compliance management and detail its architecture as part of the SUPER research project on semantic business process management.