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Pattern-Based Approaches for Business Process Improvement: A Literature Review

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Abstract

The continuous evolutions of information technology, together with the various changes, have a significant impact on Business Processes (BP) and their performance. To effectively deal with these changes, several solutions that introduce a new way to better control a BP were proposed. Among them, emerges the concept of business process improvement (BPI) that focuses on continuous improvement and evolution of BPs by adopting a number of techniques. Nowadays, a new technique for modeling and executing a BP has regained a lot of attention. It is based on the concept of patterns defined as reusable solutions used for dealing with problems occurring in a certain context, concerning a given BP. Several studies were interested in this concept, by proposing a pattern approach for modeling, executing and improving a BP. For this, the aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate the different types of patterns proposed in literature by suggesting a systematic review of the various patterns proposed. The result of the review was analyzed using a number of criteria that enable us to identify the most suitable patterns to the area of process improvement and thus positioning our work in this area. This can later be iteratively corrected and completed in order to obtain a continuously improved set of BPIP.

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Missaoui, N., Ayachi Ghannouchi, S. (2019). Pattern-Based Approaches for Business Process Improvement: A Literature Review. In: Park, J., Shen, H., Sung, Y., Tian, H. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies. PDCAT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 931. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5907-1_42

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