Towards a Framework for Business Process Models Reuse

Despite there exist different proposals for reusing existing well-designed artifacts for process modelling and capturing variability in business process models, most of them suffer from three major shortcomings: lack of automation support in (i) maintaining the configurable process model, (ii) modelling sub-processes as stand alone entities and (iii) user-centricity and decision support in choosing the suitable alternatives. In this context, we propose a framework that allows for reusing process models. We present in this paper our ongoing research in defining this framework that contains a data structure and its construction principles as well as first thoughts about maintaining it when adding process variants.