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Authors:
Neel Mani
Markus Helfert
Claus Pahl
Keywords: Business Process Modelling; Process Customisation; Process Constraints; Domain Model; Variability Model; Constraints Rule Language; Rule Generation
Abstract:
Business process models are abstract descriptions and as such should be applicable in different situations. In order for a single process model to be reused, we need support for configuration and customisation. Often, process objects and activities are domain-specific. We use this observation and allow domain models to drive the customisation. Process variability models, known from product line modelling and manufacturing, can control this customisation by taking into account the domain models. While activities and objects have already been studied, we investigate here the constraints that govern a process execution. In order to integrate these constraints into a process model, we use a rule-based constraints language for a workflow and process model. A modelling framework will be presented as a development approach for customised rules through a feature model. Our use case is content processing, represented by an abstract ontology-based domain model in the framework and implemented by a customisation engine. The key contribution is a conceptual definition of a domain-specific rule variability language.
Pages: 179 to 190
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2016
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2628