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Context and Planning for Dynamic Adaptation in PAIS

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The need for constant adaptation to address emerging demands or undesired events within organizations has grown. Unplanned situations may occur at any time during process execution and the design of a process model that predicts all paths should give place to flexible “organic” design. This paper addresses the problem of how to provide mechanisms for dynamic adaptation in Process-Aware Information Systems. On top of a theory for context-aware information systems, we propose a context management framework that aims to automate dynamic process adaptation by re-planning a process instance. The proposal was partially implemented and evaluated in a real case scenario.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Institute of Exact Sciences, University of Brasilia, P.O. Box 4466, Brasilia, 70904-970, Brazil

    Vanessa Tavares Nunes & Célia Ghedini Ralha

  2. COPPE/PESC – Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program – UFRJ, P.O. Box 68511, Rio de Janeiro, 21945-970, Brazil

    Vanessa Tavares Nunes & Claudia Maria Lima Werner

  3. Department of Applied Informatics, UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Flávia Maria Santoro

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Nunes, V.T., Santoro, F.M., Werner, C.M.L., Ralha, C.G. (2016). Context and Planning for Dynamic Adaptation in PAIS. In: Reichert, M., Reijers, H. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 256. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42887-1_38

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