A systematic literature review on compliance requirements management of business processes

Abstract

One crucial aspect that had cost business organizations so much is management of compliance requirements from various regulatory sources. In a bid to avoid being penalized, some organizations have adopted various techniques to accomplish this task. However, literature revealed that few thorough reviews have been centered on this subject in a systematic way. This implies that a review that systematically captured the entire crucial elements such as implementation environment, constraints types addressed, main contributions and strengths of the existing techniques is missing. This has led to the lack of sufficiently good context of operation. A systematic review on existing literatures is presented in this paper, which focuses on the management of business process compliance requirements in order to present summarized evidences and provide a lead-up for appropriately positioning new research activities. The guideline for conducting systematic literature review in software engineering by Kitchenham was employed in carrying out the systematic review as well as a review planning template to execute the review. Results showed that control flow and data flow requirements have been addressed most in recent time. The temporal and resource allocation requirements have been under researched. The approaches that have been employed in business process compliance requirements management are model checking, patterns, semantic, formal, ontology, goal-based requirements analysis and network analysis. The traditional business environment has been put into consideration more than the cloud environment. The summary of research contributions revealed that the approaches have been more of formal techniques compared to model checking and semantics. This shows that there is a need for more research on business process compliance that will be centered on the cloud environment. Researchers will be able to suggest the technique to be adopted based on the combined importance of each criterion that was defined in this work.