Modeling and Monitoring Business Constraints of Non-conformant Choreographed Business Processes.

A choreographed process defines the agreement between organizations with respect to the protocol that should be respected when the involved organizations interact with each other through their business processes. The resulting BPMN Choreographed Process that models this protocol can formalize business constraints. Although there are solutions that can monitor whether these constraints are satisfied, situations of non-conformance that have an impact on monitoring can arise. This happens especially when the involved parties are not equipped with a BPMS that can force business processes to align with the protocol. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First of all, it proposes the use of an extension of timed commitments to express business constraints. This extension takes into account situations of non-conformance that are not acceptable by the protocol, but are compatible with business objectives. In addition, it proposes a monitoring application solution that can support the proposed extension.