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The ADEPT project: a decade of research and development for robust and flexible process support

Challenges and Achievements

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This paper gives insights into the ADEPT project. Its target was to develop a next generation process management technology, which is by orders of magnitudes more powerful and flexible than contemporary process management systems. The ADEPT technology should provide advanced features and properties within one system, which seem to exclude each other, but which are required for the support of a broad spectrum of processes: ease-of-use for end users and system developers, high flexibility through the support of non-trivial ad-hoc deviations at the process instance level, quick implementation of process changes through process schema evolution, and correctness guarantees enabling robust execution of implemented processes. This paper describes the background and the real-world cases which motivated our research. It further explains the technological challenges we faced, describes the solutions we elaborated, and discusses the current status of the ADEPT project.

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Dadam, P., Reichert, M. The ADEPT project: a decade of research and development for robust and flexible process support . Comp. Sci. Res. Dev. 23, 81–97 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-009-0068-6

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