Visualizing and Assessing a Compositional Approach of Business Process Design

In the context of Services Oriented Architecture (Soa), complex systems are realized through the design of business–driven processes. Since the design of a complete process can be complex, composition tools such as aspects and features propose to define large systems by composing smaller artifacts, easier to understand. But these techniques shift the system complexity into the definition of composition directives able to build it. At composition time, process designers need support to assist them and assess their designed systems. We propose in this article a set of visualizations to represent compositions of business–processes and then identify patterns and categorizations. We use the Adore framework as the underlying process composition platform. We validate this work by visualizing and assessing a Car Crash Crisis Management system (CCCMS, a comparison referential for Aspect Oriented Modeling techniques). We use these visualizations to assess the Cccms realization.