Configurable structure tree as a means to manage configurable business processes

© 2017 IEEE. A configurable Business Process (BP) is an abstract BP that engineers customize with respect to specific requirements. To keep track of the multiple and recurrent customizations that lead to a set of derived BPs, this paper proposes a knowledge-based approach that uses a new Process Structure Tree called configurable PST (cPST). A cPST abstracts a separate variability option of the configurable BP. All cPSTs should be equivalent to the set of all PSTs associated with the derived BPs that could originate from the same configurable BP. This paper also proposes a logic-based configuration model for capturing configuration details on the cBP and describing the cPST computing

A knowledge-based approach to manage configurable business processes

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper stresses out the struggle of organizations when managing multiple variants of the same business process. Each variant constitutes a response to structural and/or functional needs that overtime become unsustainable due to the multiplicity and complexity of these needs. To mitigate this struggle, a knowledge-based approach for capturing these versions into a single configurable business process and splitting this process into fragments is discussed in the paper. The approach builds a configuration knowledge base to track the business process variability (ie, particularities of each business process variant). Variants are represented as a new configurable process structure tree resulting from fragmenting a business process. Implementation of the approach is, also, reported in this paper

Contributions to configurable business process management : a knowledge-based , fragmentation, and entropy measurement approach

Nous proposons une approche de gestion des processus métier configurables (cBP) offrant une vue consolidée des variantes de ces processus. Une variante est le résultat de l'ajustement d'un cBP en réponse à des besoins fonctionnels et / ou structurels. Cette approche utilise une base de connaissances pour suivre les spécificités de chaque variante représentée sous la forme d'arborescence de structure de processus configurable (cPST). Une implémentation de l'approche consistant à générer un cPST à partir d'un cBP est proposée. Nous appliquons cette approche pour calculer la complexité des processus métier configurables et prouver son avantage pour améliorer la qualité du cBPWe propose an approach for managing configurable Business Processes (cBP) that offer a consolidated view over these processes’ variants. A variant is the result of adjusting a BP in response to functional and/or structural needs. The approach uses a knowledge base to track the specificities of each variant that is represented as configurable Process Structure Tree (cPST). An implementation of the approach that consists of generating a cPST from a cBP is proposed. We apply this approach to compute configurable business process complexity and to prove its advantage for improving cBP qualit

Configurable Refined Structure Tree

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A knowledge‐based approach to manage configurable business processes

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper stresses out the struggle of organizations when managing multiple variants of the same business process. Each variant constitutes a response to structural and/or functional needs that overtime become unsustainable due to the multiplicity and complexity of these needs. To mitigate this struggle, a knowledge-based approach for capturing these versions into a single configurable business process and splitting this process into fragments is discussed in the paper. The approach builds a configuration knowledge base to track the business process variability (ie, particularities of each business process variant). Variants are represented as a new configurable process structure tree resulting from fragmenting a business process. Implementation of the approach is, also, reported in this paper

A Knowledge-based approach to manage configurable business processes

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