Benefits of Business Process Context for Human TaskManagement

Wieland, Matthias; Nicklas, Daniela; Leymann, Frank

doi:10.7763/ijtef.2011.v2.122

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“…There are many approaches that deal with context awareness in several areas, such as service engineering [14], [19], communications [6], [32], ubiquitous computing [34], multimedia [17] and business process engineering [5], [7], [40]. Several definitions of context have been proposed, however, there is no real consensus on the definition of this concept since it is used in many research fields.…”

Section: Context Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Generic Context Model for BPM

Saidani

Rolland

Nurcan

2015

2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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International audienceThis paper introduces a new context modeling approach for the business process management field. The proposed approach aims at identifying and formalizing the contextual knowledge relevant to business processes in order to be able to adapt business processes according to the context. This approach has the particularity to be generic and extensible; it can be integrated with many business process modeling approaches. It is based on ontologies and has two layers, i.e. generic layer and specific layer. Throughout the paper we compare the proposed approach with the related work in order to clearly demonstrate why we propose this approach

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Section: Context Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Generic Context Model for BPM

Saidani

Rolland

Nurcan

2015

2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…However, publications focus either on general considerations on an overall architecture ( Janiesch et al, 2011;von Ammon et al, 2009), the modeling of process events (Kunz et al, 2010) or focusses only parts of the overall concept (i.e. local workflows Wieland et al, 2011). Janiesch et al (2012) provide an example of an event-driven process analysis architecture, which goes beyond process monitoring.…”

Section: Bpmj 256mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, in the area of BPM most research has touched only aspects of context-awareness, such as process adaptation, process modeling or managerial aspects of processes (Hallerbach et al, 2008;Rosemann et al, 2006). The description or implementation of an architecture to capture and process context outside the process's control flow has been absent from the discussion or has only been focused on a mostly static part of model configuration (Hallerbach et al, 2008) or a closed environment scenario, for example, of a smart factory (Wieland et al, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Enhancing business process execution with a context engine

Janiesch

Kuhlenkamp

2018

BPMJ

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Purpose Changes in workflow relevant data of business processes at run-time can hinder their completion or impact their profitability as they have been instantiated under different circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to propose a context engine to enhance a business process management (BPM) system’s context-awareness. The generic architecture provides the flexibility to configure processes during initialization as well as to adapt running instances at decision gates or during execution due to significant context change. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses context-awareness as the conceptual background. The technological capabilities of business rules and complex event processing (CEP) are outlined in an architecture design. A reference process is proposed and discussed in an exemplary application. Findings The results provide an improvement over the current situation of static variable instantiation of business processes with local information. The proposed architecture extends the well-known combination of business rules and BPM systems with a context engine based on CEP. Research limitations/implications The resulting architecture for a BPM system using a context engine is generic in nature and, hence, requires to be contextualized for situated implementations. Implementation success is dependent on the availability of context information and process compensation options. Practical implications Practitioners receive advice on a reference architecture and technology choices for implementing systems, which can provide and monitor context information for business processes as well as intervene and adapt the execution. Originality/value Currently, there is no multi-purpose non-proprietary context engine based on CEP or any other technology available for BPM, which facilitates the adaptation of processes at run-time due to changes in context variables. This paper will stimulate a debate between research and practice on suitable design and technology.

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“…The proposed Nexus context model in (Grossmann et al, 2005) with the Augmented World Modeling Language (AWML) supports the modeling and management of standardized and extensible context models. Moreover, Wieland et al (2011) had modelled the general characteristics of the entities (position of workers, tools, machines) by providing extensions to Nexus standard classes. Extended workflow models to handle context information had also been proposed under the term of contextaware workflows (Ardissono, Furnari, Goy, Petrone, & Segnan, 2007;Heravizadeh & Edmond, 2008;Wieland, Kaczmarczyk, & Nicklas, 2008).…”

Section: Rapid Review Of Context Modeling Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The use of context notion is not new. It was adopted in various research fields such as Web Services (Mrissa et al, 2007;Qiu, Chang, Lin, & Shi, 2007), information retrieval (Chaker, Chevalier, Soulé-Dupuy, & Tricot, 2011;Monticolo & Gomes, 2011) and workflow (Wieland, Nicklas, & Leymann, 2011), where a state of the art is both recent and rich (in terms of models, definitions and taxonomies).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context-Aware Business Process Versions Management

Bouzguenda

Lassoued

Mahmoud

2016

International Journal of E-Collaboration

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This work deals with a very active and promising research area that is the Business Process (BP) flexibility. One possible way to deal with this flexibility is the conjoint use of versioning and contextualization techniques. Versioning permits BP evolution by supporting the alternative use of BP versions. Contextualization ensures the definition of use conditions of BP versions to help the designer choosing a version among several ones. In a previous work, BP flexibility had been addressed using only versioning technique by considering the informational, organizational and process perspectives. In this work, the authors show how they conjointly use both versioning and contextualization techniques to address the BP flexibility. More precisely, they propose an extension of the VBP2M meta-model (Versioned Business Process Meta Model), introduced in their previous work, by adding a contextual perspective that offers two levels of contexts granularity (local and global). This perspective is illustrated using a well-known case study «automatic production process of mineral water bottle ». An extension of the VBPQL language (Versioned Business Process Query Language) is also introduced to allow the definition, manipulating and querying of BP versions' contexts. Furthermore, the authors propose an ontology-based method to select the appropriate BP version. Finally, they present our tool that represents the implementation of the proposed solution.

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Benefits of Business Process Context for Human TaskManagement

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Towards a Generic Context Model for BPM

Towards a Generic Context Model for BPM

Enhancing business process execution with a context engine

Context-Aware Business Process Versions Management

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