Abstract
If current process management systems shall be applied to a broad spectrum of applications, they will have to be significantly improved with respect to their technological capabilities. Particularly, in dynamic environments it must be possible to quickly implement and deploy new processes, to enable ad-hoc modifications of running process instances on-the-fly (e.g., to dynamically add, delete or move process steps), and to support process schema evolution with instance migration (i.e., to propagate process schema changes to already running instances if desired). These requirements must be met without affecting process consistency and by preserving the robustness of the process management system. In this paper we describe how these challenges have been addressed and solved in the ADEPT2 Process Management System. Our overall vision is to provide a next generation process management technology which can be used in a variety of application domains.
The development of ADEPT2 was funded by the State of Baden-Württemberg as part of the AristaFlow project (see www.AristaFlow.de).
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Dadam, P. et al. (2008). Towards Truly Flexible and Adaptive Process-Aware Information Systems. In: Kaschek, R., Kop, C., Steinberger, C., Fliedl, G. (eds) Information Systems and e-Business Technologies. UNISCON 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78942-0_9
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