Abstract
A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to be individualized to meet a particular set of requirements. As such, configurable process models promote systematic reuse of proven or common practices. Existing notations for configurable process modeling focus on capturing tasks and control-flow dependencies, neglecting equally important aspects of business processes such as data flow, material flow and resource management. This paper fills this gap by proposing an integrated meta-model for configurable processes with advanced features for capturing resources involved in the performance of tasks (through task-role associations) as well as flow of data and physical artifacts (through task-object associations). Although embodied as an extension of a popular process modeling notation, namely EPC, the meta-model is defined in an abstract and formal manner to make it applicable to other notations.
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La Rosa, M., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Mendling, J., Gottschalk, F. (2008). Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects. In: Li, Q., Spaccapietra, S., Yu, E., Olivé, A. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008. ER 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_16
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