An aspect architecture for modeling organizational controls in workflow systems

Besides business objectives, organizations have control goals concerning how these objectives are met. To achieve the control goals, organizations usually add controls into their business process. Over time, controls pile up and tangle with other activities; making it difficult to manage and reengineer evolving processes. In this study, we propose an architecture that enables dissection of controls from a process while preserving connections through a set of control points. The architecture aims to simplify the design process and minimize the effects of changes in controls. © 2006 Asian Network for Scientific Information.