BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AWARE TO THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES - A Pattern Driven Approach

Nicola Boffoli, Daniela Castelluccia, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Roberto Rutilo

2008

Abstract

Nowadays enterprises perform in an extremely competitive business environment, therefore business processes, although complex must be highly flexible to react to new demands. This purpose implies that these processes should be continuously maintained through a flexible modeling. This paper addresses this problem and provides a process modeling approach able to govern the high variability of the environment parameters affecting the processes in use, through the well-known pattern paradigm and the decision tables formalism. Furthermore, the authors discuss the experience of the proposed approach in a real case. Results are encouraging and drive further investigations in such a way.

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Boffoli N., Castelluccia D., Maria Maggi F. and Rutilo R. (2008). BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AWARE TO THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES - A Pattern Driven Approach . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8111-28-9, pages 147-156. DOI: 10.5220/0001766401470156


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@conference{enase08,
author={Nicola Boffoli and Daniela Castelluccia and Fabrizio Maria Maggi and Roberto Rutilo},
title={BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AWARE TO THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES - A Pattern Driven Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2008},
pages={147-156},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001766401470156},
isbn={978-989-8111-28-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AWARE TO THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES - A Pattern Driven Approach
SN - 978-989-8111-28-9
AU - Boffoli N.
AU - Castelluccia D.
AU - Maria Maggi F.
AU - Rutilo R.
PY - 2008
SP - 147
EP - 156
DO - 10.5220/0001766401470156