Authors:
Renata M. de Carvalho
;
Hafedh Mili
;
Javier Gonzalez-Huerta
;
Anis Boubaker
and
Abderrahmane Leshob
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Keyword(s):
Business Process, Flexible Process, Case Management, Declarative Process, CMMN, ConDec.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
General-Purpose Modeling Languages and Standards
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Syntax and Semantics of Modeling Languages
Abstract:
Flexible processes emerged to provide flexibility to business process execution. A flexible process is not
static and can have several different executions, that is influenced by the current situation. In this context, the
decision-making is placed in the hands of any knowledge worker during the execution, who decides which
tasks and in which order they will be executed. Two approaches for flexible processes are discussed in this
paper: case management and declarative processes. In particular we use the CMMN standard and the ConDec
language for the two approaches, respectively. We compare them based on scope, model representation, formal
semantics, and limitations. Our goal is to present commonalities and differences between the languages in
order to identify potential extensions to make them more complete to attain more flexible process examples.