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BPM 2019: Business Process Management pp 35–51Cite as

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Business Processes

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Abstract

Organisations require that their business processes reflect their evolving practices by maintaining compliance with their policies, strategies and regulations. Designing workflows which satisfy these requirements is complex and error-prone. Business process reconfiguration is even more challenging as not only a new workflow must be devised but also an understanding of how the transition between the old and new workflow must be managed. Transition requirements can include both domain independent, such as delayed and immediate change, or user-defined domain specific requirements. In this paper we present a fully automated technique which uses control synthesis to not only produce correct-by-construction workflows from business process requirements but also to compute a reconfiguration process that guarantees the evolution from an old workflow to a new one while satisfying any user-defined transition requirements. The approach is validated using three examples from the BPM Academic Initiative described as Dynamic Condition Response Graphs which we reconfigured for a variety of transitions requirements.

Keywords

  • Dynamic reconfiguration
  • Controller synthesis
  • DCR graph

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Acknowledgement

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research, innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 778233, PPL CAIS-0204-11, Pict 2014 No. 1656, Pict 2015 No. 3638 and Ubacyt 2018-0297BA.

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  1. Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Leandro Nahabedian, Victor Braberman, Nicolás D’ippolito & Sebastián Uchitel

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK

    Jeff Kramer & Sebastián Uchitel

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  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  3. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Maximilian Röglinger

  4. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

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Nahabedian, L., Braberman, V., D’ippolito, N., Kramer, J., Uchitel, S. (2019). Dynamic Reconfiguration of Business Processes. In: Hildebrandt, T., van Dongen, B., Röglinger, M., Mendling, J. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11675. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26619-6_5

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