Business Process Design by Reusing Business Process Fragments from the Cloud

The constant development of technologies forces companies to be more innovative in order to stay competitive. In fact, designing a process from scratch is time consuming, error prone and costly. In this context, companies are heading to reuse process fragments when designing a new process to ensure a high degree of efficiency, with respect to delivery deadlines. However, reusing these fragments may disclose sensitive business activities, especially if these latter are deployed in an untrusted environment. In addition, companies are concerned about their user´s privacy. To address these issues, we investigate how to build a new business process by reusing the safest existing fragments coming from various cloud servers, i.e. The ones that comply at best with company´s preferences and policies, and offer an appropriate level of safety.