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VASCO: Variability Specification in Business Process Models

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Abstract

Due to environmental factors influencing their business, information technology plays now a key role in competitiveness of enterprises. Software editors concerned by developing enterprise information systems are irreversibly affected with industrialization of reuse, in order to produce faster, better and cheaper. Software product line approach offers techniques to increase and automate reuse, by explicitly specifying and managing the common and variable features. Business processes constitute a key lever to accelerate strategic alignment and urbanization of enterprise information systems. Thus, variability should be expressed in business process models, with the aim of helping enterprises to overcome environmental fluctuations and editors to industrialize their production. Several models have been proposed to represent variable business processes, but they are far from being directly usable (operational) for production into software factories. We present these shortcomings herein and propose solutions to overcome them. The result is VASCO approach, an operational model of variable business process.

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    Domain Specific Language.

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    Domain Independent Modeling Language.

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    Plugin Development Environment.

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    Rich Client Platform.

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    Eclipse Modeling Framework.

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    Graphical Modeling Framework.

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    Object Constraint Language.

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    XML Metadata Interchange.

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We would like to thank the National Association of Research and Technology (ANRT in French) for its contribution to this research.

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  1. LIRMM, University of Montpellier/CNRS, 161 rue Ada, 34090, Montpellier, France

    Raoul Taffo Tiam & Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai

  2. ACELYS, Business Plaza bat 3 - 159 rue de Thor, 34000, Montpellier, France

    Raoul Taffo Tiam & Raphael Michel

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  1. MODESTE/ESEO, Angers, France

    Slimane Hammoudi

  2. Macquarie University, Sydney, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek Maciaszek

  3. Despatx Omega-132, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Ernest Teniente

  4. MODESTE/ESEO, Angers, France

    Olivier Camp

  5. INSTICC, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

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Taffo Tiam, R., Seriai, AD., Michel, R. (2015). VASCO: Variability Specification in Business Process Models. In: Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Teniente, E., Camp, O., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_30

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