Versions to Address Business Process Flexibility Issue

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Amine Chaâbane;Eric Andonoff;Rafik Bouaziz;Lotfi Bouzguenda

  • Affiliations:
  • MIRACL/ISIMS, Sfax, Tunisia 3018;IRIT/UT1, Toulouse Cedex, France 31042;MIRACL/ISIMS, Sfax, Tunisia 3018;MIRACL/ISIMS, Sfax, Tunisia 3018

  • Venue:
  • ADBIS '09 Proceedings of the 13th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper contributes to address an important issue in business process management: the Business Process (BP) flexibility issue. First, it defends that versions are an interesting solution to deal with both a priori (when designing BPs) and a posteriori (when executing BPs) flexibility. It also explains why previous contributions about versions of BPs are incomplete, and need to be revisited. Then, the paper presents a meta-model for BP versions, which combines five perspectives -the functional, process, informational, organizational and operation perspectives- for BP modelling, and which allows a comprehensive description of versionalized BPs.