R. Meersman et al. (Eds.): OTM 2010, Part I, LNCS 6426, pp. 26–43, 2010. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 A Process View Framework for Artifact-Centric Business Processes Sira Yongchareon and Chengfei Liu Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Victoria, Australia {syongchareon,cliu}@swin.edu.au Abstract. Over the past several years, the artifact-centric approach to workflow has emerged as a new paradigm of business process modelling. It provides a ro- bust structure of workflow and supports the flexibility of workflow enactment and evolution especially in a collaborative environment. To facilitate and foster business collaborations, the customisation, privacy protection, and authority control of business processes are essential. Given the diverse requirements of different roles involved in business processes, providing various views with adequate process information is critical to effective business process manage- ment. Several approaches have been proposed to construct views for traditional process-centric business processes; however, no approach has been developed for artifact-centric processes. The declarative manner of process modelling in artifact-centric approaches makes view construction challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel process view framework for artifact-centric business proc- esses. The framework consists of artifact-centric process models, view models, and a mechanism to derive views from underlying process models. Consistency rules are also defined to preserve the consistency between a constructed view and its base process model. 1 Introduction The artifact-centric business process model has emerged as a new promising approach for modeling business processes, as it provides a highly flexible solution to capture operational specifications of business processes. It particularly focuses on describing the data of business processes, known as “artifacts”, by characterizing business- relevant data objects, their lifecycles, and related services. The artifact-centric process modelling approach fosters the automation of the business operations and supports the flexibility of the workflow enactment and evolution [1, 7, 10, 11]. Further, it also ef- fectively enables collaboration of the business processes as the lifecycle of an artifact may span multiple business units when it evolves through the process. Each time the artifact moves from one state to another state, its relevant information/data is updated. Services that update on the artifact can be performed by various roles of participants, which may belong to a single organization or different organizations. Given the diver- sity of the participants involved in business processes, providing various views with adequate information of artifacts and business processes to participants according to