Integrating Business Process Models and Rules: Empirical Evidence and Decision Framework

1 INTRODUCTION.- 1.1 BACKGROUND.- 1.2 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH.- 1.3 THESIS STRUCTURE.- 2 LITERATURE REVIEW.- 2.1 OVERVIEW.- 2.2 BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS.- 2.3 BUSINESS PROCESS UNDERSTANDING.- 2.4 BUSINESS RULES.- 2.5 BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL AND BUSINESS RULE INTEGRATION.- 2.6 INTEGRATION APPROACHES.- 2.7 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 3 METHODOLOGY.- 3.1 RESEARCH METHOD OF STUDY 1 - EXPERIMENT.- 3.2 RESEARCH METHOD OF STUDY 2 - SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND SURVEY.- 3.3 RESEARCH METHOD OF STUDY 3 - DESIGN SCIENCE.- 3.4 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 4 RULE INTEGRATION AND MODEL UNDERSTANDING: A THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING.- 4.1 OVERVIEW.- 4.2 RELATED THEORIES.- 4.3 PROCESS MODELS AND RULES UNDERSTANDING.- 4.4 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 5 THE EFFECT OF RULE LINKING ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL UNDERSTANDING.- 5.1 OVERVIEW.- 5.2 HYPOTHESES DEVELOPMENT.- 5.3 APPROACH.- 5.4 RESULT ANALYSIS.- 5.5 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 6 IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING BUSINESS PROCESS AND BUSINESS RULE INTEGRATION.- 6.1 OVERVIEW.- 6.2 APPROACH.- 6.3 BUSINESS RULE MODELLING FACTORS.- 6.4 EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF FACTORS.- 6.5 BUSINESS RULE EMBEDDING GUIDELINES.- 6.6 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 7 A BUSINESS RULE MODELLING DECISION FRAMEWORK.- 7.1 OVERVIEW.- 7.2 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION OF OBJECTIVES.- 7.3 THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DECISION FRAMEWORK.- 7.4 THE DECISION FRAMEWORK DEMONSTRATION.- 7.5 THE DECISION FRAMEWORK EVALUATION.- 7.6 CHAPTER SUMMARY.- 8 CONCLUSION.- 8.1 OVERVIEW.- 8.2 SUMMARY OF CONTRIBUTIONS.- 8.3 RESEARCH LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE WORK.- REFERENCES.- APPENDIX A ONLINE SURVEY.- APPENDIX B EXPERIMENT MATERIALS.