A Goal-Directed Modeling Technique towards Business Process

The modeling techniques for business process are mostly graphics-based, that is argued to be simplified when the processes become too complex or expanded to provide full details. In this paper we propose a technique for modeling composite activities by including components of data, human actors and atomic activities. Furthermore, we represent business processes with composite activities using process-oriented languages. To explore the properties of the business processes under this modeling technique, we define a set of metrics that reflect the degree of data aggregation and human actor involvement of executing composite activities. Algorithms to calculate these metrics are derived based on the goal-directed nature of the modeling technique for composite activities and business processes. At last by providing a use case, we discuss the artifacts and future work for this modeling technique.