COMPRO: A methodological approach for business process contextualisation

  • Jose Luis De La Vara
  • , Raian Ali
  • , Fabiano Dalpiaz
  • , Juan Sánchez
  • , Paolo Giorgini

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Abstract

Context-awareness has emerged as a new perspective for business process modelling. Business processes are strongly influenced by context, the environment where they are executed, and thus context should not be ignored when modelling them. This calls for new approaches that facilitate contextualisation, i.e. identification and representation of the way context influences a business process. In addition, detailed methodological guidance for correct business process contextualisation should be provided. However, existing works on context-aware business process modelling do not deal with these challenges. This paper addresses them by presenting COMPRO, a methodological approach for business process contextualisation. Starting from an initial business process model, context is analysed in order to discover its relevant variations and specify their effect on a business process. Our approach helps process designers to adequately specify context variants and business process variants that accommodate them. Our ultimate goal is to guarantee the correct design of business processes that fit their context. In addition, we report initial results about COMPRO application and evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOn the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010 - Confederated International Conferences
Subtitle of host publicationCoopIS, IS, DOA and ODBASE, Proceedings
Pages132-149
Number of pages18
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event9th Confederated International Conferences on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010: CoopIS 2010, IS 2010, DOA 2010 and ODBASE 2010 - Crete, Greece
Duration: 25 Jan 201029 Jan 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6426 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Confederated International Conferences on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010: CoopIS 2010, IS 2010, DOA 2010 and ODBASE 2010
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityCrete
Period25/01/1029/01/10

Keywords

  • Business process contextualisation
  • Business process modelling
  • Context analysis
  • Context-awareness
  • Correctness of business process models

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