# Discovering Business Rules from Business Process Models

**Authors:** Thanh Thoa Pham Thi, Markus Helfert, Fakir Hossain, Thang Le Dinh

arXiv: 1704.06229 · 2017-04-21

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes how well popular business process modeling languages can embed business rules and provides indicators for extracting various rule types to improve process compliance and adaptability.

## Contribution

It offers an analysis of the expression power of modeling languages and introduces indicators for extracting diverse business rules from process models.

## Key findings

- Identifies the embedding capabilities of modeling languages.
- Provides indicators for extracting multiple rule types.
- Enhances process compliance and agility.

## Abstract

Discovering business rules from business process models are of advantage to ensure the compliance of business processes with business rules. Furthermore it provides the agility of business processes in case of business rules evolution. Current approaches are limited on types of rules that can be discovered. This paper analyses the expression power of some popular business process modelling languages in embedding business rules in its presentation and provides indicators to extract various types of business rules from business process models.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1704.06229