Modeling Flexible Business Processes with Business Rule Patterns

Milanovic, Milan; Gašević, Dragan; Rocha, Luís F.

doi:10.1109/edoc.2011.25

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“…A variety of integration methods [24,43,52,65,68,100,105,139] have been developed since researchers first suggested that business process and rule modeling approaches should be merged [74]. To name a few, [92] defined the structure of rules to couple business process models and rules.…”

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“…Kovacic and Groznik [71] developed a meta-model to demonstrate how rules can link process, activity, events, data objects, and software components. Milanovic et al [100] introduced an integrated modeling language rBPMN, which is a combination of BPMN and R2ML to model flexible business process models.…”

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“…Link approaches are more flexible than process-based embedding approaches [139]. In link approaches, flexibility can be achieved because the rules can be executed directly in systems with a rule engine and hence they can be added or removed when needed; whereas in process-based approaches, any addition or removal of activities requires changes in the existing process and hence the underlying implementation [100,139]. The differences between linking and embedding (including text embedding and diagrammatic embedding) are summarized in Table 1.…”

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“…Over the past two decades the need to model business rules in an integrated manner with business processes has been argued theoretically [52,176] as well as validated empirically [126,163], and a variety of integration methods [24,43,52,65,68,100,105,139] have been developed during this time. Although the benefits and methods of integrated business rule modeling have been well studied, there is a lack of guidance outlining the circumstances under which business rules should be integrated in a business process model, yet such a decision is not a straightforward one.…”

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Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

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Two major components in current information system architectures in terms of modeling business requirements are business processes and business rules, both of which focus on creating a representation of the organization's policies and practices. The conceptual and pragmatic overlap between business process models and business rules indicates a need to model the two related aspects together. Over the past two decades the need to model business rules in an integrated manner with business processes has been argued theoretically as well as validated empirically, and a variety of integration methods have been developed. However, the following questions have not yet been answered by current research. First, while researchers have argued that integrated modeling of business process models and business rules can improve the understanding of business processes, this proposition has neither been theoretically analyzed, nor empirically evaluated.Second, there are situations in which a business rule is better modelled independently of a business process model, but also situations in which it is more appropriate to integrate the rule with a business process model. An important aspect of integrated modeling is the understanding of such situations and how they influence business rule representation.Thus, the aim of this thesis is to address the above two questions and then develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether and how to integrate a business rule with a business process model. Accordingly, the thesis has the following three objectives:(1) theoretically analyze and empirically evaluate if and when business rule integration can improve business process model understanding, (2) identify and evaluate factors that will influence the decision of whether or not a business rule should be integrated with a business process model, and (3) develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether or not, and if so how, to integrate a business rule with a business process model.

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“…Variant approaches include: Provop [10], which supports schema variants with preconfigured adaptations to a base process schema; and vBPMN [11], which extends BPMN with fragment-based adaptations via the R2ML rule language. rBPMN [12] also interweaves BPMN and R2ML. Automated planning and exception-driven adaptation approaches include SmartPM [13], which utilizes artificial intelligence, procedural, and declarative elements.…”

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A Hypermedia-Driven Approach for Adapting Processes via Adaptation Processes

Oberhauser

2015

2015 8th International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering &Amp; Its Applications (ASEA)

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In addition to an increasing need for business process management systems (BPMS) to dynamically adapt to situational change, there is increased interest in web service accessibility of BPMS to broaden their integration in enterprises and the cloud. Towards this end, a RESTful hypermedia-driven enactment and adaptation of processes has not been adequately explored. This paper thus investigates a hypermedia extension of our process adaptation approach AProPro we call AProProh (Adapting Processes via Processes using hypermedia) that dynamically provides hypermedia to guide process clients in the navigation, enactment, and adaptation of process instances. Clients of process-aware information systems (PAIS) have hitherto been tied to vendor-specific APIs and lacked a standard web-based API. The AProProh HATEOAS-PAIS middleware enables process clients to be more generic and PAIS-agnostic via REST APIs. Additionally, process clients can dynamically apply valid adaptations or adjust to process model changes utilizing dynamically generated hypermedia. Based on a case study prototype realization supporting dynamic invocation of process adaptation patterns, the initial evaluation results show its feasibility and gauge its performance overhead.

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