Meronymy-based aggregation of activities in business process models
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Business processes contextualisation via context analysis
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Managing service variability: state of the art and open issues
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
COMPRO: a methodological approach for business process contextualisation
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
A foundational approach for managing process variability
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
What BPM technology can do for healthcare process support
AIME'11 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Artificial intelligence in medicine
Design and management of flexible process variants using templates and rules
Computers in Industry
Ensuring correctness during process configuration via partner synthesis
Information Systems
Modeling and managing variability in process-based service compositions
ICSOC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Propagating changes between aligned process models
Journal of Systems and Software
Patterns to enable mass-customized business process monitoring
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Applying CVL to business process variability management
Proceedings of the VARiability for You Workshop: Variability Modeling Made Useful for Everyone
CAptLang: a language for context-aware and adaptable business processes
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Configuring business process models
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Mining configurable process models from collections of event logs
BPM'13 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Business Process Management
Product and Production Process Modeling and Configuration
Fundamenta Informaticae - Special Issue on the Italian Conference on Computational Logic: CILC 2011
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Usually, for a particular business process different variants exist. Each of them constitutes an adjustment of a reference process model to specific requirements building the process context. Contemporary process management tools do not adequately support the modeling of such process variants. Either the variants have to be specified as separate process models or they are expressed in terms of conditional branches within the same process model. Both methods often lead to redundancies making model adaptations a time-consuming and error-prone task. In this article, we discuss selected concepts of the Provop approach for modeling and managing process variants. A particular process variant can be configured at a high level of abstraction by applying a set of well-defined change operations to a reference process model. In particular, this article discusses advanced concepts for the design and modeling of such a reference process model as well as for the adjustments required to configure the different process variants. Altogether, Provop provides a flexible and powerful solution for process variant management. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.