Abstract
Dynamic business process management (dBPM) is contingent on the practical viability of automated process adaptation techniques. Various approaches to support process adaptation have been investigated, yet they typically expect some level of manual interaction or involve some amalgamation of additional modeling paradigms or language extensions. Additionally, cross-cutting process adaptation concerns and a distributed and cloud-based process adaptation capability have not been adequately addressed. AProPro (Adapting Processes via Processes), a flexible and cloud-capable approach towards dBPM, supports adapting target processes using adaptation processes while retaining an intuitive and consistent imperative process paradigm. The evaluation consists of case studies in both a business and an engineering domain and demonstrates the approach in a distributed Adaptation-as-a-Service cloud setting. The results show the viability of the approach across various domains.
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The author thanks Florian Sorg for his assistance with the implementation and evaluation and Gregor Grambow for his assistance with the concept. This work was supported by AristaFlow and an AWS in Education Grant award.
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Oberhauser, R. (2016). Towards Dynamic Business Process Management: Adapting Processes via Cloud-based Adaptation Processes. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 257. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40512-4_1
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