Flexible batch configuration in business processes based on events

Luise Pufahl, Nico Herzberg, Andreas Meyer, Mathias Weske

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Abstract

Organizations use business process management techniques to manage their core business processes more efficiently. A recent technique is the synchronization of multiple process instances by processing a set of activities as a batch – referred to as batch regions, e.g., the shipment of goods of several order processes at once. During process execution, events occur providing information about state changes of (a) the business process environment and (b) the business process itself. Thus, these events may influence batch processing. In this paper, we investigate how these events influence batch processing to enable flexible and improved batch region execution. Therefore, we introduce the concept of batch adjustments that are defined by rules following the Event-Condition-Action principle. Based on batch adjustment rules, relevant events are correlated at run-time to batch executions that fulfill the defined condition and are adjusted accordingly. We evept by a real-world use case.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService-Oriented Computing - 12th International Conference, ICSOC 2014, Proceedings
EditorsXavier Franch, Aditya K. Ghose, Grace A. Lewis, Sami Bhiri
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages63-78
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9783662453902
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014 - Paris, France
Duration: 3 Nov 20146 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8831
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period3/11/146/11/14

Keywords

  • BPM
  • Batch processing
  • Event processing
  • Flexible configuration

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