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CCBR–Driven Business Process Evolution

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2005)

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Process-aware information systems (PAIS) allow coordinating the execution of business processes by providing the right tasks to the right people at the right time. In order to support a broad spectrum of business processes, PAIS must be flexible at run-time. Ad-hoc deviations from the predefined process schema as well as the quick adaptation of the process schema itself due to changes of the underlying business processes must be supported. This paper presents an integrated approach combining the concepts and methods provided by the process management systems ADEPT and CBRFlow. Integrating these two systems enables ad-hoc modifications of single process instances, the memorization of these modifications using conversational case-based reasoning, and their reuse in similar future situations. In addition, potential process type changes can be derived from cases when similar ad-hoc modifications at the process instance level occur frequently.

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  1. Quality Engineering Research Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 21a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Barbara Weber

  2. Dept. Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm, Germany

    Stefanie Rinderle

  3. Evolution Consulting, Innsbruck, Austria

    Werner Wild

  4. Information Systems Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Manfred Reichert

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lehigh University, PA 18015, Bethlehem,  

    Héctor Muñoz-Ávila

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,  

    Francesco Ricci

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Weber, B., Rinderle, S., Wild, W., Reichert, M. (2005). CCBR–Driven Business Process Evolution. In: Muñoz-Ávila, H., Ricci, F. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11536406_46

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