TY - GEN
T1 - Flexibility requirements in real-world process scenarios and prototypical realization in the care domain
AU - Kaes, Georg
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
AU - Vigne, Ralph
AU - Mangler, Juergen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Flexibility is a key concern in business process management and mature solutions and systems have been developed during the last years. What can be observed is that the approaches mostly consider process instances that are executed based on a process schema reflecting a process type, e.g., an order process. The process instances might be adapted during runtime in an individual manner (ad-hoc changes) or the process schema evolves due to, for example, new regulations. We studied cases from four different domains for their requirements on flexibility. These use cases are characterized by long running, highly adaptive, and individual instances, i.e., instances that are not based on a common process schema, but develop during runtime based on context and processrelevant data. The requirements analysis shows that can only part of them can be met by existing approaches. To illustrate an initial solution meeting the identified requirements, a prototypical implementation of the care domain use case is demonstrated, followed by a discussion of lessons learned and a research agenda.
AB - Flexibility is a key concern in business process management and mature solutions and systems have been developed during the last years. What can be observed is that the approaches mostly consider process instances that are executed based on a process schema reflecting a process type, e.g., an order process. The process instances might be adapted during runtime in an individual manner (ad-hoc changes) or the process schema evolves due to, for example, new regulations. We studied cases from four different domains for their requirements on flexibility. These use cases are characterized by long running, highly adaptive, and individual instances, i.e., instances that are not based on a common process schema, but develop during runtime based on context and processrelevant data. The requirements analysis shows that can only part of them can be met by existing approaches. To illustrate an initial solution meeting the identified requirements, a prototypical implementation of the care domain use case is demonstrated, followed by a discussion of lessons learned and a research agenda.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84910113072
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 55
EP - 64
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
A2 - Meersman, Robert
A2 - Panetto, Hervé
A2 - Mishra, Alok
A2 - Valencia-García, Rafael
A2 - Lucas Soares, António
A2 - Ciuciu, Ioana
A2 - Ferri, Fernando
A2 - Weichhart, Georg
A2 - Moser, Thomas
A2 - Bezzi, Michele
A2 - Chan, Henry
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Workshops: OTM Academy,OTM Industry Case Studies Program, C and TC, EI2N, INBAST, ISDE, META4eS, MSC, and OnToContent 2014
Y2 - 27 October 2014 through 31 October 2014
ER -