Ein Business Process Model Repository für die Automatisierung von mehrstufigen Geschäftsprozessen mit Multilevel Business Artifacts

Organizations are often structured hierarchically. Accordingly, the activities of such organizations are distributed over different hierarchical levels. The lack of support for mapping hierarchies in common modeling languages designed for process models often results in incomplete or incomprehensible models. Multilevel modeling extends the existing paradigm in the field of modeling and aims to improve the usability of models. This is to be achieved through reduced complexity and improved extensibility when compared to conventional modeling approaches. Multilevel Business Artifacts enable the use of these advantages by combining data and process models for multiple hierarchical levels of an organization in a single object. This thesis describes the implementation of a repository that allows the management of Multilevel Business Artifacts in hetero-homogeneous concretization hierarchies. Additionally, the repository allows step-by-step refinements of Multilevel Business Artifacts by providing a set of reflective functions that adhere to freely definable consistency criteria.