Seven views + one

Process modeling is of paramount importance in organization. It is a powerful tool to manage and control all its activities. However, the diversity of approaches and standards proposing process modeling makes choosing a methodology for modeling processes a delicate work. This choice has become more difficult, given the increasing complexity of current information systems and requires the consideration of several aspects and dimensions. This paper proposes to explore a new way for modeling business processes within a complex environment, and defines an extension of the seven views approach by adding a system dimension. This extension, based on the System of Systems paradigm, provides to designers and project managers a multi-level view (system / subsystems) by expliciting the relationship between processes and complex system.