Managing business processes as an information resource
IBM Systems Journal
Dynamic change within workflow systems
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
Adept_flex—Supporting Dynamic Changes of Workflows Without Losing Control
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
Techniques for Supporting Dynamic and Adaptive Workflow
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Database Support for Workflow Management: The Wide Project
Database Support for Workflow Management: The Wide Project
Constraint Processing
Dynamic Evolution in Workflow Management Systems
DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Workflow mining: a survey of issues and approaches
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Goal-Focused Self-Modifying Workflow in the Healthcare Domain
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 6 - Volume 6
A case-based reasoning framework for workflow model management
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Advances in business process management
AGENT WORK: a workflow system supporting rule-based workflow adaptation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Specification and validation of process constraints for flexible workflows
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Case handling: a new paradigm for business process support
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Using a temporal constraint network for business process execution
ADC '06 Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Database Conference - Volume 49
Measuring similarity between semantic business process models
APCCM '07 Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific conference on Comceptual modelling - Volume 67
A Classification of Differences between Similar BusinessProcesses
EDOC '07 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
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BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
On business process model transformations
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Change patterns and change support features in process-aware information systems
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Constraint-based workflow models: change made easy
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
Process equivalence: comparing two process models based on observed behavior
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Managing process variants as an information resource
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Data–driven process control and exception handling in process management systems
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Constraint acquisition for Entity-Relationship models
Data & Knowledge Engineering
An integer programming based approach for verification and diagnosis of workflows
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Mining process models with prime invisible tasks
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Ensuring compliance with semantic constraints in process adaptation with rule-based event processing
RuleML'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Semantic web rules
Goal-based behavioral customization of information systems
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Next best step and expert recommendation for collaborative processes in it service management
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
Incorporating business logics into RFID-enabled applications
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Business process model repositories - Framework and survey
Information and Software Technology
Design and management of flexible process variants using templates and rules
Computers in Industry
Declarative enhancement framework for business processes
ICSOC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Propagating changes between aligned process models
Journal of Systems and Software
Behavioral adaptation of information systems through goal models
Information Systems
A Notation for the Task-Oriented Modeling of Business Processes
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Flexible Process Compliance with Semantic Constraints Using Mixed-Integer Programming
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Modeling business capabilities and context dependent delivery by cloud services
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Representations of Artifact-Centric Business Processes
International Journal of Productivity Management and Assessment Technologies
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Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and business operations, workarounds in spite of process execution engines, dynamic change and exception handling, flexible and ad-hoc requirements, and collaborative and/or knowledge intensive work. It is imperative that effective support for managing process variances be extended to organizations mature in their BPM (business process management) uptake so that they can ensure organization wide consistency, promote reuse and capitalize on their BPM investments. This paper presents an approach for managing business processes that is conducive to dynamic change and the need for flexibility in execution. The approach is based on the notion of process constraints. It further provides a technique for effective utilization of the adaptations manifested in process variants. In particular, we will present a facility for discovery of preferred variants through effective search and retrieval based on the notion of process similarity, where multiple aspects of the process variants are compared according to specific query requirements. The advantage of this approach is the ability to provide a quantitative measure for the similarity between process variants, which further facilitates various BPM activities such as process reuse, analysis and discovery.