Towards Controlling Lawful States and Events in Business Process Models

In enterprises it is important to control whether unlawful events occur or business objects are in unlawful states during business process execution. Existing modelling methods such as BPMN and Archi Mate do not to a full extent support description of conceivable and lawful state and event spaces that can affect execution of the process. This gap jeopardizes compliance of business process models with external and internal regulations. This paper proposes a theoretical solution for closing the gap between business process and enterprise architecture models and conceivable and lawful state and event spaces by using BWW model. BWW model is a generic framework for conceptualization of information system objects.