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Business process management (BPM) supports organizations with their operational procedures. Traditional BPM focuses on structured processes but lacks support for flexible ones. Case management addresses this gap. The fragment-based case management (fCM) approach models processes as a set of repetitive, structured fragments. At run-time fragments are instantiated and composed to realize flexibility while data requirements synchronize their execution. So far, fCM does not consider data-to-data associations or object-to-fragment bindings. We investigate both by (i) extending fCM models and (ii) refining the execution semantics. For evaluation, we present a formal model based on colored Petri nets.
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We acknowledge and thank Marcin Hewelt, the originator of fCM, for sharing his thoughts and work not only in his publications but also during presentations and in face-to-face interactions.
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Haarmann, S., Weske, M. (2020). Correlating Data Objects in Fragment-Based Case Management. In: Abramowicz, W., Klein, G. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53337-3_15
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