Enhancing Business Process Flexibility by Flexible Batch Processing

Luise Pufahl, Dimka Karastoyanova

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOn the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences - Confederated International Conferences
Subtitle of host publicationCoopIS, C and TC, and ODBASE 2018, Proceedings
EditorsHenderik A. Proper, Robert Meersman, Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Hervé Panetto, Christophe Debruyne, Dumitru Roman
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages426-444
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783030026097
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventConfederated 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 - Valletta, Malta
Duration: 22 Oct 201826 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11229 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceConfederated 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
Country/TerritoryMalta
CityValletta
Period22/10/1826/10/18

Keywords

  • Batch activities
  • Business processes
  • Flexibility
  • Flexibility strategies
  • Modular architecture
  • Separation of concerns

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