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Second-Order Servification

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Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions (ICSOB 2013)

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In this paper we present second-order servification, a business process modeling paradigm for variability. Key to this paradigm is to consider services and even whole subprocesses as ‘resources’ of a (second-order) business process, which can be created, selected, and moved around just like data. This does not only allow us to easily define new variants of a business process simply via second-order parameterization, but also to exchange its constituent services (and even sub-processes) dynamically at runtime. In fact, the concrete implementation of a second-order activity in a process model may be unknown when the process starts, and built-up and exchanged while the process is running. We will illustrate the ease of the new paradigm along a flight booking scenario, where our corresponding second-order process model allows us to dynamically instantiate the payment process even with process implementations that were not available when the overall process started.

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    Johannes Neubauer & Bernhard Steffen

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    Tiziana Margaria

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Neubauer, J., Steffen, B. (2013). Second-Order Servification. In: Herzwurm, G., Margaria, T. (eds) Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions. ICSOB 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39336-5_2

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