A Method for Modeling Business Processes in a Role-based and Decentralized Way

Role-based and decentralized process modeling allows actors to focus on modeling their own role behaviors and requires them to negotiate to form a consistent and integrated process model. Negotiations among the actors have a crucial impact on modeling activity of overall process since decentralized process modeling has a collaborative nature. Based on the time spent for negotiation among the actors, process modeling approaches vary. In this study, we propose a role-based and decentralized process modeling method, called ROADMap that enables process stakeholders to model their own works in a bottom up manner. In order to observe the implications of the proposed method, we conducted a case study. Case study results indicate that ROADMap method is a successful role-based and decentralized process modeling method for process stakeholders.