TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling design-time variability in business processes
T2 - 15th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2014 and 19th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2014
AU - Mechrez, Inbal
AU - Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Recently the interest in managing families of business processes rather than individual processes has increased, mainly due to the need to maintain different variants of the same business process or similar business processes in the same organization. This led to the extension of different business process modeling languages (BPMLs) in order to support the representation of designtime variability, namely variability that is resolved when designing the particular business processes (the variants). However, the evaluation of these languages expressiveness is still in an inceptive stage. In particular, the abilities to express variable elements in different granularity levels and to guide variability in business process models have not been examined. To tackle this lack, we propose a two-dimensional framework which explicitly refers to granularity and guidance. We further examine how existing extensions of BPMLs support these dimensions, point on deficiencies in their expressiveness, and discuss the implications of those deficiencies through examples from a case study.
AB - Recently the interest in managing families of business processes rather than individual processes has increased, mainly due to the need to maintain different variants of the same business process or similar business processes in the same organization. This led to the extension of different business process modeling languages (BPMLs) in order to support the representation of designtime variability, namely variability that is resolved when designing the particular business processes (the variants). However, the evaluation of these languages expressiveness is still in an inceptive stage. In particular, the abilities to express variable elements in different granularity levels and to guide variability in business process models have not been examined. To tackle this lack, we propose a two-dimensional framework which explicitly refers to granularity and guidance. We further examine how existing extensions of BPMLs support these dimensions, point on deficiencies in their expressiveness, and discuss the implications of those deficiencies through examples from a case study.
KW - Business process modeling
KW - Configuration
KW - Design time variability
KW - Variability modeling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904553749&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904553749
SN - 9783662437445
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 378
EP - 392
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, 15th International Conference, BPMDS 2014, 19th International Conference, EMMSAD 2014 Held at CAiSE 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 16 June 2014 through 17 June 2014
ER -