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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.
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Chaâbane, M.A., Andonoff, E., Bouaziz, R., Bouzguenda, L. (2009). Versions to Address Business Process Flexibility Issue. In: Grundspenkis, J., Morzy, T., Vossen, G. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03973-7_2
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