Authors:
Zakaria Maamar
1
;
Amel Benna
2
;
Hirad Rezaei
3
;
Amin Beheshti
4
and
Fethi Rabhi
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar
;
2
Research Center for Scientific & Technical Information Algiers, Algeria
;
3
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
;
4
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Keyword(s):
Business Process, Masking, ODRL, Partnership, Policy.
Abstract:
To preserve their competitiveness, organizations that engage in partnership have the opportunity of masking their business processes without undermining this partnership’s progress. Aggregation and abstraction correspond to masking where the former groups activities together giving the impression of a limited number of activities in a business process, and the latter makes some activities invisible since they are deemed not relevant for partnership. Besides masking, organizations adopt policies to define permissions, prohibitions, and obligations on business processes at run-time. This paper examines the impact of business process masking on policies with focus on adjusting, dropping, and developing policies in Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL). A system demonstrating this impact is also presented in the paper.