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Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes

Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes

Khadhir Bekki, Hafida Belachir
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 1554-1045|EISSN: 1554-1053|EISBN13: 9781613507827|DOI: 10.4018/jitwe.2011040105
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Bekki, Khadhir, and Hafida Belachir. "Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes." IJITWE vol.6, no.2 2011: pp.57-67. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2011040105

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Bekki, K. & Belachir, H. (2011). Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 6(2), 57-67. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2011040105

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Bekki, Khadhir, and Hafida Belachir. "Towards a Flexible and Adaptable Modeling of Business Processes," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6, no.2: 57-67. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitwe.2011040105

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Abstract

This article proposes a flexible way in business process modeling and managing. Today, business process needs to be more flexible and adaptable. The regulations and policies in organizations, as origins of change, are often expressed in terms of business rules. The ECA (Event-condition-action) rule is a popular way to incorporate flexibility into a process design. To raise the flexibility in the business processes, the authors consider governing any business activity through ECA rules based on business rules. For adaptability, the separation of concerns supports adaptation in several ways. To cope with flexibility and adaptability, the authors propose a new multi concern rule based model. For each concern, each business rule is formalized using their CECAPENETE formalism (Concern -Event-Condition-Action-Post condition- check Execution- Number of check -Else-Trigger-else Event). Then, the rules based process is translated into a graph of rules that is analyzed in terms of relations between concerns, reliably and flexibility.

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