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Leveraging CMMN for ACM: examining the applicability of a new OMG standard for adaptive case management

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Werner Schmidt,

Albert Fleischmann,

Matthias LedererAuthors Info & Claims

S-BPM ONE '15: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/2723839.2723843

Published: 23 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Adaptive case management (ACM) is an increasingly popular approach for supporting knowledge-intensive business processes. Being a new approach, it still lacks a similar degree of standardization as the more established business process management (BPM) approaches. This paper introduces the new Case Management and Model and Notation (CMMN) standard. Based on a set of ACM requirements, the applicability of CMMN for modeling ACM cases is examined thoroughly and extensions improving the ACM support of CMMN are proposed.

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S-BPM ONE '15: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management

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DOI:10.1145/2723839

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