Title: Dynamic context-aware Business Process flexibility: an artefact-based approach using process mining

Authors: Mounira Zerari; Mahmoud Boufaida

Addresses: LIRE Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Mentouri University of Constantine, 25000, Algeria. ' LIRE Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Mentouri University of Constantine, 25000, Algeria

Abstract: Nowadays, enterprises and their business processes are becoming more dynamic. Business Processes (BPs) need to be able to adapt to changes in open business systems environments. This paper presents a new approach for BP flexibility based on context environments and artefacts. This approach enables a better reusability and exibility of independent BP modules in a context-aware run-time environment. We present a context-aware process mining framework where contexts will be automatically captured from execution environments to maximise the exibility of BPs. Process mining techniques are used to extract information from BP run-time. The reasoning about those information using artefact is shown.

Keywords: context-aware business processes; artefacts; process mining; business rules; process-aware information systems; variables context; business process flexibility; open business systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2011.044997

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, 2011 Vol.6 No.4, pp.345 - 361

Published online: 22 Apr 2015 *

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