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An Automation Support for Creating Configurable Process Models

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Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011 (WISE 2011)

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Configurable process models are constructed via the aggregation of several process models. Manual creation of configurable process models is tedious, time consuming and error prone task. We propose in this paper an automation support for creating these models. The contribution of this paper is a merging algorithm for integrating a set of process variants into a single configurable process model. This integrated process model should (i) subsume the behaviours of all original models, (ii) ensure a trace back of the origin of each element and (iii) derive any of the input models by means of configuration and individualization. Existing solutions either fail in respecting all these requirements or allow for merging only pairs of process models. However, our algorithm allows for merging a set of process models at once. This algorithm has been implemented and tested over a set of different process variants.

This work is funded by the Lion II project supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant number 08/CE/I1380.

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    Wassim Derguech & Sami Bhiri

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  2. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan,, Galway, Ireland

    Manfred Hauswirth

  3. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

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Derguech, W., Bhiri, S. (2011). An Automation Support for Creating Configurable Process Models. In: Bouguettaya, A., Hauswirth, M., Liu, L. (eds) Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011. WISE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24434-6_15

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