TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing Business Process Flexibility by Flexible Batch Processing
AU - Pufahl, Luise
AU - Karastoyanova, Dimka
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Business Process Management is a powerful approach for the automation of collaborative business processes. Recently concepts have been introduced to allow batch processing in business processes addressing the needs of different industries. The existing batch activity concepts are limited in their flexibility. In this paper we contribute different strategies for modeling and executing processes including batch work to improve the flexibility (1) of business processes in general and (2) of the batch activity concept. The strategies support different flexibility aspects (i.e., variability, looseness, adaptation, and evolution) of batch activities. The strategies provide a systematic approach to categorize existing and future batch-enabled BPM systems. Furthermore, the paper provides a system architecture independent from existing BPM systems, which allows for the support of all the strategies. The architecture can be used with different process languages and existing execution environments in a non-intrusive manner.
AB - Business Process Management is a powerful approach for the automation of collaborative business processes. Recently concepts have been introduced to allow batch processing in business processes addressing the needs of different industries. The existing batch activity concepts are limited in their flexibility. In this paper we contribute different strategies for modeling and executing processes including batch work to improve the flexibility (1) of business processes in general and (2) of the batch activity concept. The strategies support different flexibility aspects (i.e., variability, looseness, adaptation, and evolution) of batch activities. The strategies provide a systematic approach to categorize existing and future batch-enabled BPM systems. Furthermore, the paper provides a system architecture independent from existing BPM systems, which allows for the support of all the strategies. The architecture can be used with different process languages and existing execution environments in a non-intrusive manner.
KW - Batch activities
KW - Business processes
KW - Flexibility
KW - Flexibility strategies
KW - Modular architecture
KW - Separation of concerns
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055801877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055801877
SN - 9783030026097
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 426
EP - 444
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences - Confederated International Conferences
A2 - Proper, Henderik A.
A2 - Meersman, Robert
A2 - Ardagna, Claudio Agostino
A2 - Panetto, Hervé
A2 - Debruyne, Christophe
A2 - Roman, Dumitru
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2018, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2018, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C and TC, held as part of OTM 2018
Y2 - 22 October 2018 through 26 October 2018
ER -