Configurable Process Models — A Foundational Approach

Gottschalk, Florian; Aalst, Wil M. P. van der; Jansen-Vullers, MH Monique

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-1966-3_3

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“…1. Both models capture the process of registering a newborn and are adapted versions of the models obtained in different Dutch municipalities, cf., [18]. The administrative processes of Dutch municipalities are rather similar due to legal regulations and Case (9 Fig.…”

Section: Challenges For Managing Decoupled Process Variantsmentioning

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A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

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Mendling

Weske

2011

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

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Abstract. A business process often shows different variations in a large organisation, due to different legal requirements in different countries, deviations in the IT infrastructure, or organisational differences. These variants are documented in separate independent process models. Management of these variants imposes various challenges. Invariant behaviour needs to be identified and redundancies among the variants have to be avoided. In this paper, we address these questions by defining a set-algebra for behavioural profiles. These profiles represent a behavioural abstraction of process models that can be computed efficiently. We trace back many questions of process variability management to set-theoretic operations and relations defined for behavioural profiles. As a validation, we apply our approach to an industry model collection.

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Section: Challenges For Managing Decoupled Process Variantsmentioning

confidence: 98%

A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

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Weske

2011

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

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“…As shown in [18], these are the foundation operators for removing behavior. All other mechanisms removing behavior can be expressed in terms of these basic operations (see [17,20,24,32] for examples). Moreover, these correspond to the basic operators when describing inheritance of dynamic behavior [3,10].…”

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“…Figure 2 illustrates that the basic mechanisms apply to different languages. Different configurable languages have been defined in the literature, e.g., C-YAWL, C-EPC, and C-SAP [17,20,24,32]. A so-called configuration can be applied to a configurable model created using such a language.…”

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“…A configurable process model represents a family of process models; that is, a model that through configuration can be customized for a particular setting. Configuration is achieved by hiding (i. e., bypassing) or blocking (i. e., inhibiting) certain fragments of the configurable process model [18]. In this way, the desired behavior is selected.…”

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Ensuring correctness during process configuration via partner synthesis

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Variants of the same process can be encountered within one organization or across different organizations. For example, different municipalities, courts, and rental agencies all need to support highly similar processes. In fact, procurement and sales processes can be found in almost any organization. However, despite these similarities, there is also the need to allow for local variations in a controlled manner. Therefore, many academics and practitioners have advocated the use of configurable process models (sometimes referred to as reference models). A configurable process model describes a family of similar process models in a given domain. Such a model can be configured to obtain a specific process model that is subsequently used to handle individual cases, for instance, to process customer orders. Process configuration is notoriously difficult as there may be all kinds of interdependencies between configuration decisions. In fact, an incorrect configuration may lead to behavioral issues such as deadlocks and livelocks. To address this problem, we present a novel verification approach inspired by the "operating guidelines" used for partner synthesis. We view the configuration process as an external service, and compute a characterization of all such services which meet particular requirements via the notion of configuration guideline. As a result, we can characterize all feasible configurations (i. e., configurations without behavioral problems) at design time, instead of repeatedly checking each individual configuration while configuring a process model.

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Reference Models for Standard Software—Scientific Myth Instead of Practical Reality?

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2019

The Art of Structuring

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Configurable Process Models — A Foundational Approach

Cited by 53 publications

References 19 publications

A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

Ensuring correctness during process configuration via partner synthesis

Reference Models for Standard Software—Scientific Myth Instead of Practical Reality?

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