BPMN 2.0 based modeling and customization of variants in business process families

Delgado, Andrea; Calegari, Daniel

doi:10.1109/clei.2017.8226450

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“…Finally, although the paper focuses on software processes, the generation of variants approach is quite generic. In fact, we are currently working on applying the approach in the context of BPMN 2.0 business processes [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

Supporting Living Lab with Life Cycle and Tools for Smart City Environments (S)

Nesi¹,

Paolucci²

2018

International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Modeling variability in software systems or processes promotes reuse of core assets. In particular, variability in software development processes allows customization of activities, artifacts, roles and other elements to specific projects, in what is called a process variant. Each process variant is derived from a base common process, called process tailoring, which is usually a tedious and error prone manual process. In the last years, there has been a growing interest in supporting the process variability approach, being v-SPEM a proposal that integrates and advanced view of variability into the SPEM standard. In this paper we present an extension of v-SPEM support for final users, with automated generation of variants, to help during process tailoring. The use of automatic mechanisms reduces errors and simplifies the tailoring process by hiding the details to the end users.

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confidence: 99%

Supporting Living Lab with Life Cycle and Tools for Smart City Environments (S)

Nesi¹,

Paolucci²

2018

International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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“…In [6,8] the authors performed comprehensive surveys about approaches for modeling process families. In [10] we delve into approaches using BPMN 2.0 as a standard specification language, as well as languageindependent approaches that were adapted to be used with BPMN 2.0. In Table 1 there is a summary of the approaches, in particular: how the variability is expressed (Restriction/Res or Extension/Ext), the models required for the specification, the kind of elements over which the variability is expressed, the base language used (BPMN 2.0 extension or language-independent), and their corresponding tool support (tool availability up to this date).…”

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“…BPMNExt [10] is also a BPMN 2.0 extension providing a variability by restriction approach, that is part of our work on process variability for BPMN 2.0. The approach is based on the ideas provided by the vSPEM approach for software processes [27].…”

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“…For a practical assessment of the approach, we use two different execution cases (can be downloaded from our repository in [18]): the "Airport check-in" process family was taken from [17] and used as a standard case study when applying the VIVACE framework, and the "Assignment of positions in academic exchange program" process family from a real project we carried out within our university, introduced in [16] and used in [10] for our BPMN 2.0 variability extension, BPMNExt.…”

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“…In the variability by restriction approach (also known as behavioral approach) all the possible behaviors are represented within the base process, and each process variant is derived by restricting such behavior. An example of this approach is BPMNext [10], a proposal of our own based on an adaptation of BPMN 2.0 for supporting multi-level variation points for activities and roles. In contrast, in the variability by extension approach (structural approach) a set of artifacts separately represent different aspects of the process family, and each process variant is derived by extending the behavior of the base process.…”

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Model-driven support for business process families with the Common Variability Language (CVL)

Calegari

Delgado

Peña

2020

CLEIej

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To achieve a business objective, organizations may require variants of the same business process that depend on the context in which they are enacted. Several proposals have emerged to deal with the variability of business processes, focused on the modeling of a so-called process family. The proposals try to avoid modeling each variant separately, which implies duplication and maintenance of the common parts. Few of them also focus on automatically deriving a process variant from the definition of a process family, which is a central and complex task. One of these proposals is the Common Variability Language (CVL), which allows representing variability transparently in a host language. This article aims to explore the use of CVL together with the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0) for modeling business process families, and the use of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques for the automatic generation of process variants. We also present a graphical tool supporting these ideas and a qualitative evaluation of the variability approach by using the VIVACE framework.

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