Business process model and business rule integration - Towards a decision framework

Information systems architectures are becoming increasingly complex and fragmented. As a result, organizations struggle to cope with change propagation, compliance management, and interoperability. Two major components in current information system architectures in terms of modeling business requirements are business processes and business rules. Although the need for business processes and business rules to be modeled in an integrated manner is well established, the body of knowledge on integrated modeling of the two is limited. To investigate in this topic, the Ph.D. project is divided into 4 studies. The first study aims to identify and evaluate what factors affect integrated vs separated modeling decisions. The second study aims to examine the effect of integrated modeling on process understanding. The third study aims to develop a decision framework that can guide business process modelers in making decisions about how to model a business rule