Regras para Apoiar a Especificação de Restrições em Processos-de-Processos de Negócio

Abstract

Collaboration between organizations has become increasingly common, requiring the coordination of interorganizational processes. In this complex scenario, the M-PoP method emerges to properly model and, consequently, facilitate the understanding of Processes-of-Business Processes (PoP), which are complex and dynamic business processes composed of processes from different organizations that collaborate with one another. Although M-PoP defines specific views and models to support such modeling, significant challenges remain, particularly regarding the lack of standardization for specifying constraints, which hinders their precision, clarity, and comprehension. From this perspective, this undergraduate work aims to define a set of rules to assist business analysts in specifying constraints within the context of PoP, by contributing to the evolution of M-PoP and enhancing the representation of constraints in real-world PoP. To this end, a systematic literature mapping was conducted to identify the most suitable notation for representing such constraints, resulting in the selection of the Object Constraint Language (OCL). The rules were then systematically defined and applied to the Public Health PoP, illustrating their usefulness in a real scenario. The specification of the proposed rules were validated using the EclipseOCL and USE tools, demonstrating their consistency and practical applicability.