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Evaluation of Correctness Criteria for Dynamic Workflow Changes

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Business Process Management (BPM 2003)

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The capability to dynamically adapt in-progress workflows (WF) is an essential requirement for any workflow management system (WfMS). This fact has been recognized by the WF community for a long time and different approaches in the area of adaptive workflows have been developed so far. They either enable WF type changes and their propagation to in-progress WF instances or (ad-hoc) changes of single WF instances. Thus, at first glance, many of the major problems related to dynamic WF changes seem to be solved. However, this picture changes when digging deeper into the approaches and considering implementation and usability issues as well. This paper presents important criteria for the correct adaptation of running workflows and analyzes how actual approaches satisfy them. At this, we demonstrate the strengths of the different approaches and provide additional solutions to overcome current limitations. These solutions comprise comprehensive correctness criteria as well as migration rules for change realization.

This work was done within the research project “Change management in adaptive workflow systems”, which has been founded by the German Research Community (DFG).

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  1. Dept. Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm, Faculty of Computer Science, Ulm

    Stefanie Rinderle, Manfred Reichert & Peter Dadam

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  1. Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Potsdam University, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Mathias Weske

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Rinderle, S., Reichert, M., Dadam, P. (2003). Evaluation of Correctness Criteria for Dynamic Workflow Changes. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44895-0_4

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