Generalizability and Applicability of Model-Based Business Process Compliance-Checking Approaches – A State-of-the-Art Analysis and Research Roadmap

With a steady increase of regulatory requirements for business processes, automation support of compliance management is a field garnering increasing attention in Information Systems research. Several approaches have been developed to support compliance checking of process models. One major challenge for such approaches is their ability to handle different modeling techniques and compliance rules in order to enable widespread adoption and application. Applying a structured literature search strategy, we reflect and discuss compliance-checking approaches in order to provide an insight into their generalizability and evaluation. The results imply that current approaches mainly focus on special modeling techniques and/or a restricted set of types of compliance rules. Most approaches abstain from real-world evaluation which raises the question of their practical applicability. Referring to the search results, we propose a roadmap for further research in model-based business process compliance checking.

Leistungsverfügbarkeit zwischen Theorie und Praxis

Leistungsverfügbarkeit als Kennwert ist in den letzten Jahren in den theoretischen sowie auch praktischen Fokus gerückt. Zielstellung eines theoretischen Ansatzes in diesem Bereich muss die Schaffung von Grundlagen für den praktischen Nutzen sein. Um die bestehende Lücke zwischen den dargestellten Parteien ein Stück weit zu schließen, erläutert der vorliegende Artikel zunächst Forderungen der Praxis aus Sicht von Anlagenplaner und -betreiber und stellt anschließend einen darauf antwortenden theoretischen Ansatz vor, der die Planbarkeit von Leistungsverfügbarkeit ermöglichen soll.

What is the Relation between Human Practical Action and an Accompanying Discourse? Discussing the Status of Practical Theory

The article discusses the function of an accompanying discourse in relation to the genesis of human practical action. On the one side, theory cannot be taken as the ground for practical action; practical action is not a realisation of intentions. On the other hand, human practical action is accompanied by series of explanations, justifications, declarations of intent, pre‑ and post-rationalisations, motivations etc. These accompanying discourses seem in one way or the other to be necessary for the actual realisation of human practical action. Following Pierre Bourdieu, it is suggested that an accompanying discourse cannot in a meaningful manner be separated from the human practical action, that practical theory should be regarded not as theory but as part of practice, and that practical theory first of all provides a common language for talking about practice and hence for reproducing a fundamentally arbitrary idea of the genesis of human practical action. Parallels are drawn to the education/formal training of semi-professionals.