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Batch Processing Across Multiple Business Processes Based on Object Life Cycles

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Batch processing is a means to synchronize the execution of multiple process instances for certain activities to improve process performance. Current batch processing concepts for business processes focus only on single process models whereas in practice large process model repositories exist with repeating activities. In this paper, we introduce a concept to specify batch processing requirements in centrally given object life cycles, which describe allowed data manipulations in order to identify candidates for batch processing during run-time across multiple processes and propose them to the user. We evaluate the applicability of this concept by implementation for an open source BPM platform.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Andreas Meyer for his helpful input and Stephan Haarmann for his support in extending the Camunda engine.

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Luise Pufahl & Mathias Weske

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Correspondence to Luise Pufahl .

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznan Univ of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

    Rainer Alt

  3. Information System Institute, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Bogdan Franczyk

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Pufahl, L., Weske, M. (2016). Batch Processing Across Multiple Business Processes Based on Object Life Cycles. In: Abramowicz, W., Alt, R., Franczyk, B. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39426-8_16

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