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Dealing with Variability: A Control-Based Configuration of Process Variants

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Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2017)

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Process models are often reused in different contexts, resulting in a large number of related process model variants. Such process variants pursue the same or similar business objective, but may differ in their logic (i.e., process logic) due to varying application context at either design time or run-time. We propose a control approach to support the selection and configuration of process variants. Our approach is based on supervisory control theory, which is a formal way to build supervisors for discrete-event systems. In our approach, the supervisors will control the selection and configuration of process variants, based on constraints of certain context. We divide our approach in two main parts: (1) a supervised questionnaire to support configuration and selection of a process variant, and (2) a formal procedure to linking the questionnaire to a process variant from a reference process model.

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    Sauro Schaidt, Eduardo Alves Portela Santos, Agnelo Denis Vieira & Eduardo de Freitas Rocha Loures

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Schaidt, S., Santos, E.A.P., Vieira, A.D., de Freitas Rocha Loures, E. (2017). Dealing with Variability: A Control-Based Configuration of Process Variants. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_42

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