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An automated method for the construction of semantic business process patterns

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  • Lobna Makni
  • Nahla Zaaboub Haddar
  • Hanêne Ben-Abdallah

Abstract

The effectiveness of reuse in the development of software prompted researchers to look for reuse techniques for business process modelling. Indeed, a variety of reusable business artefact types has been proposed during the last decade. Among the recently proposed reuse artefact types, semantic business process patterns (SB2Ps) offer process patterns that encapsulate knowledge and commonly used practices in a particular domain. The design using an SB2P provides for the adaptation of these practices and it offers guidance on possible variations. This paper presents an automated method to construct SB2P starting from a set of process models in a given domain. The proposed method has the merit of accounting for the semantic, structural and behavioural information of the initial models. In addition, it produces process patterns where common fragments are distinguished from variation points, which assists business process designers in reusing an SB2P to meet their requirements. The method is illustrated through a case study in the cost accounting domain.

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  • Lobna Makni & Nahla Zaaboub Haddar & Hanêne Ben-Abdallah, 2018. "An automated method for the construction of semantic business process patterns," International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(3), pages 263-290.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpmbe:v:8:y:2018:i:3:p:263-290
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