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Process models have an inherent need to rapidly evolve in order to maintain synchronization with the human domain that they are supporting. To support the required evolution, it is not sufficient that the support environment is built by making the entire application as flexible as possible to support all known future evolution processes. This is not only impossible to achieve in practice but will also result in a complex environment that will itself be hard to evolve. A better approach will be to build the support environment on top of a systems architecture that continuously provides the best-fit support for the environment. This assumes that the systems architecture is tuned and retuned to the application as the layers of the architecture are built in compliance to the support environment and subsequently the process models.
A compliant systems architecture provides this best-fit architecture by essentially providing an approach to identify a systems architecture that is composed by separating the mechanisms and policies of the application. This compliant architecture is coupled with a flexible up-call/down-call infrastructure for evolving the mechanisms and policies that allow the base configuration to be changed through structural reflection capabilities.
In this paper an experiment to construct a compliant environment for enacting process models is described. Concrete examples of how this compliant environment provided better support for the evolution required by a process model framework are then given.
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Seet, W., Warboys, B. (2003). A Compliant Environment for Enacting Evolvable Process Models. In: Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45189-1_12
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