Abstract
Focusing on the relationship between behavioural and information perspectives in this paper we present an approach to support flexibility of Business Processes. The approach extends Feature Model descriptions with data-objects in order to derive process fragments and process variants. The approach has been applied to a data-intensive scenario such as the reporting activity of EU projects with encouraging results.
This research has been partially founded by EU project LearnPAd GA: 619583 and by the Project MIUR PRIN CINA - 2010LHT4KM.
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Cognini, R., Corradini, F., Polini, A., Re, B. (2015). Using Data-Object Flow Relations to Derive Control Flow Variants in Configurable Business Processes. In: Fournier, F., Mendling, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15895-2_19
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