The manual specification of imperative business
process (BP) models can be very complex and time-consuming,
potentially leading to non-optimized models or even errors. To
support process analysts in the definition of these models, a
method for generating optimized configurable BP models from a
constraint-based specification by considering multiple objectives
is described. A constraint-based specification typically allows
for several different ways of executing it leading to several
enactment plans which can, however, vary greatly in respect
to how well different performance objective functions can be
achieved.We therefore automatically generate different plans and
select the ones which fit best the objectives of the company. The
generated plans are then merged into an optimized configurable
BP model to support the model expert in choosing the most
appropriate plan depending on the importance of each objective
at configuration time.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2009-1371
