Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Managing Configurable BP Models

A. Jiménez-Ramírez, B. Weber, I. Barba, C. Del Valle

2014

Abstract

Managing large collections of business process (BP) models is increasingly being necessary for organizations. For this, configurable BP models can be used for managing these BPs while allowing analysts to understand what these BPs share and what their differences are. Before the execution of the configurable BP model, a BP model has to be selected from it. This selection is typically performed by an analyst who manually individualizes the model in order to address the business requirements. Unlike existing approaches, we propose a totally automated method to create a questionnaire-based application for guiding a business expert on individualizing a model.

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Jiménez-Ramírez A., Weber B., Barba I. and Del Valle C. (2014). Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Managing Configurable BP Models . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-015-4, pages 709-714. DOI: 10.5220/0004921407090714


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart14,
author={A. Jiménez-Ramírez and B. Weber and I. Barba and C. Del Valle},
title={Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Managing Configurable BP Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2014},
pages={709-714},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004921407090714},
isbn={978-989-758-015-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Managing Configurable BP Models
SN - 978-989-758-015-4
AU - Jiménez-Ramírez A.
AU - Weber B.
AU - Barba I.
AU - Del Valle C.
PY - 2014
SP - 709
EP - 714
DO - 10.5220/0004921407090714