Acquire Inter-Organizational Business Process Based on Operational View Products of C4ISR Architecture Framework

Process acquirement which is the core task of requirement elicitation, lays the foundation for the process modeling. This paper gives the formal description of business processes; additionally the formalized expression of the activity-related products in the C4ISR architecture framework is also given, from which, the elements required by business processes can be acquired. The approach of business process acquirement is proposed, and the mapping rules from products of Operational Views to business process are detailed specified. At the end, an example is set up to validate the feasibility of this new approach.