Tool support for the design and management of context models

Cipriani, Nazario; Wieland, Matthias; Groímann, M.; Nicklas, Daniela

doi:10.1016/j.is.2010.07.004

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“…Chen and Kotz (2000) understand context-aware systems as computer systems, which offer information and services to users based on their context. Examples include tool support for the design of spatial databases and management of context models (Cipriani et al, 2011) or Provop, an approach for configuring context-based process variants based on static context information (Hallerbach et al, 2008). Herzberg et al (2015) present an approach to use events of object state transitions to observe process progress but do not consider external context.…”

Section: The Notion Of Context and Context-aware Information Systemsmentioning

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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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Section: The Notion Of Context and Context-aware Information Systemsmentioning

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Enhancing business process execution with a context engine

Janiesch

Kuhlenkamp

2018

BPMJ

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“…To make WfMS more adaptive to the production environment, the European Commission has funded a European FP7 project named “ALLOW” (Adaptable Pervasive Flows) since 2008. As the project coordinator, Prof. Frank Leymann and his team play an important role and extend the research area of context-aware workflow to the manufacturing environment (Cipriani et al, 2011; Wieland et al, 2007). They use context-aware workflows for failure management in a smart factory (Wieland et al, 2010) and also utilize the context model for representation of business process management artifacts (Wieland et al, 2011) and developed some algorithms to improve the systems (Rothermel et al, 2012; Wolf et al, 2009).…”

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Intelligent knowledge recommending approach for new product development based on workflow context matching

Liu

Wang

2016

Concurrent Engineering

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The variety of product types/specifications in discrete manufacturing enterprises makes new product development tasks real tough work. Therefore, it is a common strategy for workers to refer to similar outcomes (e.g. the product drawings and work instructions) of former new product development tasks. In order to discover similar historic outcome, this article presents an intelligent approach to measure the cohesion between workflow contexts in process-aware information systems and exploit it for runtime task knowledge recommendation. The measure of context similarity is preceded by (1) modeling the task context with ontology theory and (2) using the ontology matching algorithms to evaluate the similarities between context ontology entities of different tasks. Specifically, the term frequency–inverse document frequency approach is utilized to compute the context cohesion between current task and historic ones, and the tasks with the highest similarity will be recommended to the task executors, along with their outcomes. Comparative evaluation is performed using term frequency–inverse document frequency, Levenshtein, and Affine Gaps, and results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves good precision and recall and is efficient in task knowledge recommendation.

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“…These papers utilize Context Modelling to produce development methods and tools for context-aware software systems. In this respective, [15] presents an editor (NexusEditor) to model and manage complex context information. [16] proposes a generic framework to adapt applications to the context in a pervasive computing environment.…”

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State of the Art in Context Modelling – A Systematic Literature Review

Koç

Hennig

Jastram

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Due to the dynamic changes in business environments enterprises adjust their business services and information technology systems. This is a prerequisite to deliver an enhanced business capability to the customers. Such needs address that the information systems should be aware of the context that they are operating in. This work explores context modelling research domain conducting a systematic literature review (SLR) in a limited time frame and literature resources. The work concludes that although the term context is widely used in computer sciences, there is no methodology or a common language to model context in identified articles.

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Tool support for the design and management of context models

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Enhancing business process execution with a context engine

Enhancing business process execution with a context engine

Intelligent knowledge recommending approach for new product development based on workflow context matching

State of the Art in Context Modelling – A Systematic Literature Review

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