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Configuration of Multi-perspectives Variants

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In order to compete in effectively nowadays an organization has to offer a variety of process to fulfill the individual requirements of the different customers. The management of the process variability is an important aspect not only during execution, but already during modeling. One common way to deal with this is configuration. This paper presents a generic concept of process configuration which does not solely focus on the functional aspect, but also considers others such as, for example, the organizational, operational and data oriented aspects. Furthermore, different levels of abstraction are introduced to further structure the configuration process. At modeling time it is differentiated between process families (a set of variants) and individual variants themselves; concerned with modeling and execution time between variants and alternatives.

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  1. Chair for Applied Computer Science, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

    Stephanie Meerkamm

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  1. Stevens Institute of Technology, Howe School of Technology Management, 07030, Hoboken, NY, USA

    Michael zur Muehlen

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California, 93106-5110, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Jianwen Su

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Meerkamm, S. (2011). Configuration of Multi-perspectives Variants. In: zur Muehlen, M., Su, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20511-8_27

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