To enable enterprises to keep up with the constant change in business relationships and cross-organizational value chains,
it is crucial to develop adaptive business systems and value chains. In order to achieve this, methodologies, methods, and
infrastructures to support end-to-end modeling of cross-organizational business processes are required, allowing changes to
business processes being defined at the business level and providing well-defined (and possibly largely automated) model transformations
and refinements down to the level of information and communication technology systems.
The contribution of this paper is threefold: First, we present a conceptual architecture for modeling collaborative business
processes based on a model-driven architecture; second, we propose a design approach suitable to the model-driven architecture,
and third, we provide two model transformations (mappings) to implement our design approach, thus enabling the smooth transition
from an ARIS model via a computation-independent BPDM model to a platform-independent BPDM model.
Keywords Business Process Modeling - Adaptive Value Networks - Model-Driven Architecture - Business Process Definition Metamodel - Cross-Organizational Business Processes - Collaborative Business Processes