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Adding support for dynamics patterns to static business process management systems

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René Wörzberger,

Nicolas Ehses,

Thomas HeerAuthors Info & Claims

SC'08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software composition

Pages 84 - 91

Published: 29 March 2008 Publication History

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Many companies use business process management systems (BPMS) for modeling and execution support of their business processes. Many processes are highly dynamic and require changes even during execution. Common commercial BPMS fail to support such processes appropriately since they work in a rather static manner, i.e. they demand that the structure of a process is fixed before execution.

Our research group cooperates with an industry partner who uses a static BPMS. This paper describes an approach that posteriorly extends this static BPMS inasmuch as dynamic changes of processes during execution are supported. The benefit of this approach is that our partner in industry gains support of dynamic processes but still use the existing BPMS and save investments related to it.

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Liu YCazzola WZhang BOssowski SLecca P(2012)Towards a colored reflective Petri-net approach to model self-evolving service-oriented architecturesProceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2245276.2232081(1858-1865)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2245276.2232081
Heer THeller MWestfechtel BWörzberger R(2010)Tool support for dynamic development processesGraph transformations and model-driven engineering10.5555/1985522.1985554(621-654)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1985522.1985554

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March 2008

263 pages

ISBN:3540787887

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Cesare Pautasso
University of Lugano, Faculty of Informatics, Lugano, Switzerland
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Éric Tanter
University of Chile, Computer Science Department, PLEIAD Lab, Santiago, Chile

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Liu YCazzola WZhang BOssowski SLecca P(2012)Towards a colored reflective Petri-net approach to model self-evolving service-oriented architecturesProceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2245276.2232081(1858-1865)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2245276.2232081
Heer THeller MWestfechtel BWörzberger R(2010)Tool support for dynamic development processesGraph transformations and model-driven engineering10.5555/1985522.1985554(621-654)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1985522.1985554

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