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A Hybrid Approach for Flexible Case Modeling and Execution

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Business Process Management Forum (BPM 2016)

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While the business process management community has concentrated on modelling and executing business processes with a known structure, support for processes with a high degree of variability performed by knowledge workers is still not satisfactory. A promising approach to overcome this deficiency is case management. Despite of the work done in the area of case management in recent years, there is no accepted case handling formalism that features a well defined semantics. This paper introduces a novel approach to case management, which is based on dynamically combining process fragments as required by knowledge workers. An operational semantics defines the meaning of case models in detail, using states of data objects and enablement conditions of process fragments.

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Notes

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    We need to distinguish between the BPMN modeling construct named data objects used in fragments and the instances of a data class present at runtime. The former represent the latter in the model.

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    When it is clear from the context, we will speak of the first activity, when we mean the activity instance belonging to the first activity. Bear in mind, that cases are on instance level.

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Marcin Hewelt & Mathias Weske

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  1. Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Marcello La Rosa

  2. DFKI, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

    Peter Loos

  3. Universidad Politècnica de Valencia , Valencia, Spain

    Oscar Pastor

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Hewelt, M., Weske, M. (2016). A Hybrid Approach for Flexible Case Modeling and Execution. In: La Rosa, M., Loos, P., Pastor, O. (eds) Business Process Management Forum. BPM 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45468-9_3

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