Enabling Compliance Monitoring for Process Execution Engines

Most of organizations try to ensure that their business processes are compliant with regulations and laws, so runtime monitoring of process compliance is considered to be of crucial importance. In this regard, there are several frameworks that enable the monitoring based on variants of event processing technologies. Most of these frameworks presume a rich activity lifecycle model for the execution of tasks. However, most of process execution engines support simpler lifecycle models. Thus, these frameworks fall short in monitoring compliance for such engines due to missing needed input events. The goal of this paper is to enable compliance monitoring for different process execution engines. First we propose a middleware layer that maps different execution engines’ lifecycles states to a reference lifecycle model. Also, unmatched states will be derived from execution’s engine states. Additionally, we implement compliance anti patterns to prove the feasibility of our approach.