Abstract
Business process management systems aim at ensuring an efficient chaining of the tasks composing a business process. Their activity relies on process models representing sets of business scenarios. Unfortunately, these models cannot take all the possible states of the environment into account, especially when a process is executed in a dynamic environment. The BEM (Business Event Manager) framework has been designed and developed in order to support dynamic process re-design at run-time in situations where incompatibilities with the predefined model occur. The heart of the solution combines a business process engine, a Complex Event Processing engine and an abductive planner. This paper describes the support offered by the BEM framework and presents a generic description of the architecture together with its implementation.
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This work was carried out in the context of the BEM (Business Event Manager) research Project (convention nr 6306), which is supported by the Walloon Region as part of its Plan Marshall/Logistics in Wallonia funding. We also thank the partners of the BEM project for providing cases for the integration modules development, the air traffic management case study as well as for many fruitful discussions.
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Linden, I., Derbali, M., Schwanen, G., Jacquet, JM., Ramdoyal, R., Ponsard, C. (2014). Supporting Business Process Exception Management by Dynamically Building Processes Using the BEM Framework. In: Dargam, F., et al. Decision Support Systems III - Impact of Decision Support Systems for Global Environments. EWG-DSS EWG-DSS 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11364-7_7
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