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Towards Customer-Individual Configurations of Business Process Models

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Book cover Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2012, EMMSAD 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 113))

Abstract

Nowadays business process models are a common approach to describe and analyse existing business processes and to create new processes in a structured way. However, with growing complexity of process models there is a lack of comprehensibility. Using existing notations, it is challenging or even impossible to define temporal and logical constraints between process steps that are not directly connected. We demonstrate a declarative approach for representing business processes that allows for configuration, i.e. selection of process steps, based on a component representation. In addition, we present ways to transform a configuration into a procedural process model using BPMN.

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  1. Department of Business Information Systems, University of Leipzig, Germany

    Michael Becker & Stephan Klingner

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  1. IbisSoft AB, Stockholm, Box 19567, SE-10432, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

  2. LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælands Vei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  5. Erik Proper, PRC Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Erik Proper

  6. Aalen University, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  7. University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  8. Department of Business Informatics, University of Gdansk, ul. Piaskowa 9, 81-864, Sopot, Poland

    Stanisław Wrycza

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Becker, M., Klingner, S. (2012). Towards Customer-Individual Configurations of Business Process Models. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_9

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