XML-based Transformation of Business Process Models – Enabler for Collaborative Business Process Management

Abstract: Interoperability of business process models provides a, if not the fundamental starting point for the development of an inter-organisational business process management. The integration of process models is, however, highly complex due to the heterogeneous use of modelling methods and tools and due to distributed modelling within collaborative networks. The paper deals with the problems of semantic and syntactic interoperability, the mapping of established on “new ” methods, e.g. of EPC on BPMN, and the coupling of public and collaborative processes. We propose an adaptable solution in the form of a procedural model to reduce the complexity of the planning- and creation-tasks and to provide an example of how XML-based model transformation can enable integration on a conceptual level. 1 Collaborative Business Process Management Looking at the added-value chain of enterprises, a change from an intra-organisational perspective – keeping value-creation within its own borders – towards an interorganisational perspective – value-creation within a network of specialised firms – ca