A Checking Consistency Framework Based on Multi-View Models Towards Business Process Model Repository

On the purpose to adapt to ever complicated business models, an efficient consistency checking approach is needed for Business Process Model Repository to manage Multi-View models. We present a consistency checking framework to resolve the problems for service-based application. Firstly, based on business model analysis, a Multi-View business meta-model is built to act as a referred framework to find out relationships between different business elements. Then the meta-model is served as the basic criterion to check consistency of different business models. Next the integrity and consistency algorithms are proposed to cope with the Multi-View models. By means of our algorithms, inaccurate and lost relationship will be found and rebuilt at the same time. Lastly, a transportation process of one Logistics Company is given as a case study to verify the practical usability of the checking consistency framework. The result shows the proposed framework is a feasible method to cope with Multi-View models in Business Process Model Repository.