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Future developments for enterprise process management must evolve from the current systems based on rigid, workflow based processes into context-aware, agile dynamic structures, which exploit local adaptability. In this idea paper, we define two forms of process agility. To enable these forms of agility, we present our vision of context-aware business process management based on declarative modeling combined with innovative context management and formal concept analysis. We finally describe the foundations and introduce the architecture of a context-aware agile business process engine (CAPE).
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Rychkova, I., Kirsch-Pinheiro, M., Le Grand, B. (2013). Context-Aware Agile Business Process Engine: Foundations and Architecture. In: Nurcan, S., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38484-4_4
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