Continuous Planning for Solving Business Process Adaptivity

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Authors: Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella

Tags: 2011, conceptual modeling

Process Management Systems (PMSs, aka Workflow Management Systems – WfMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool to coordinate the enactment of processes. In real world scenarios, the environment may change in unexpected ways so as to prevent a process from being successfully carried out. In order to cope with these anomalous situations, a PMS should automatically adapt the process without completely replacing it. In this paper, we propose a technique, based on continuous planning, to automatically cope with unexpected changes, in order to modify only those parts of the process that need to be changed/adapted and keeping other parts stable. We also provide a running example that shows the practical applicability of the approach.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_9