Am 22. Juli 2019 hat David Knuplesch seine kumulative Dissertationsschrift mit dem Titel
Enabling Multi-Perspective Business Process Compliance
erfolgreich an der Universität Ulm verteidigt. Das DBIS-Team gratuliert David herzlich zur Erlangung des Doktortitels der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.). David hat seine Dissertation im Rahmen eines Kooperationsprojekts der Universität Wien und DBIS erstellt, mittlerweile ist er für die alphaQuest GmbH tätig.
Doktorvater und Betreuer von David ist Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert. Externe Gutachterin ist Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (Universität Wien). Seine Forschungsarbeiten hat David im von der DFG und FWF geförderten C3Pro-Projekt durchgeführt, in dem ein Rahmenwerk für die Sicherstellung von Compliance-Regeln in adaptiven kollaborativen Prozessen entwickelt wurde.
Mitglieder des Promotionskommitees:
- Prof. Dr. Franz Hauck (Vorsitz)
- Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert (Doktorvater und Erster Gutachter)
- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (Externe Gutachterin)
- Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm (Wahlmitglied)
- Prof. Dr. Mathias Tichy (Wahlmitglied)
Kurzzusammenfassung (in engl. Sprache)
A challenge for any enterprise is to ensure that its business processes conform with compliance rules, i.e., semantic constraints on the multiple perspectives of a business process. Compliance rules stem, for example, from legal regulations, corporate best practices, domain-specific guidelines, and standards. In particular, compliance rules are multi-perspective, i.e., they restrict not only the process control flow, but refer to other process perspectives (e.g. time, data, and resources) and interactions with partner processes (i.e. message exchanges) as well.
The aim of this thesis is to improve the specification and verification of multi-perspective process compliance through three contributions:
- The extended Compliance Rule Graph (eCRG) language that enables the multi-perspective, visual modeling of compliance rules that, besides control flow, may refer to the time, data, resource and interaction perspective of a business process.
- A framework for monitoring the compliance of running processes with a given set of eCRG compliance rules.
- Techniques for the verification of business process compliance regarding the in-teraction perspective. In particular, we consider compliance verification for cross-organizational business processes, for which only incomplete process knowledge is available.
All contributions were thoroughly evaluated based on proof-of-concept prototypes, case studies, empirical evaluations, and comparisons with related works.