Assessing flexibility in event-driven process adaptation. (March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Patiniotakis, Ioannis; Apostolou, Dimitris; Verginadis, Yiannis; Papageorgiou, Nikos; Mentzas, Gregoris
• Is Part Of: Information systems. Volume 81(2019)
• Page Start: 201
• Page End: 219
• Publication Date: 2019-03
• Subjects: BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation -- BPEL Business Process Execution Language -- WS-CDL Web Services Choreography Description Language -- SAN Situation Action Network -- AOP Aspect Oriented Programming -- ECA Event Condition Action -- EDA Event Driven Architecture -- CEP Complex Event Processing -- RSN Radiation Survey Network -- MS Meteo Service -- MCDM Multi-Criteria Decision Making -- LOWA Linguistic Ordered Weighted Average -- RDF Resource Description Framework; Business process adaptation -- Process flexibility; Database management -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Periodicals; Bases de données -- Gestion -- Périodiques; Informatique -- Périodiques; Database management; Electronic data processing; Periodicals; 005.7
• DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2017.10.009
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-4379

Abstract

Abstract: Business process management (BPM) has emerged as a prominent information management approach focusing on the design, execution and governance of organizational business processes. The ability to deal with both foreseen and unforeseen changes in business processes is considered critical for contemporary business process management systems. This paper proposes an approach that couples an event-driven framework for detecting and reasoning in situations that pose the need for process adaptations with MCDM methods for selecting adaptations. The proposed approach has been implemented in an aspect-oriented extension of a BPMN2.0 engine in order to enact adaptations of business processes in real-time. Highlights: We assess flexibility in event-driven adaptive processes using an aspect-oriented approach and a dynamic mechanism for selecting adaptations. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of our approach by implementing it in BPMN2.0 workflow engine.