Towards Automated and Fine-Grain Reuse of Configurable Business Process Models

Abstract

Configurable Business Process models (CBP-models for short) are inspired from the design by reuse paradigm. They present a starting point for modeling business processes. However, the individualization of these models is manual which makes it time-consuming and error-prone. Moreover, using such models, business experts are not allowed to reuse a process fragment from this model. Thus, we propose a CPB-model with a hierarchical structure and capability annotated tasks. With such a structure, it is possible to point directly to a target fragment and reuse it. Moreover, the capability-annotation enabled us to develop an algorithm that generates automatically a question flow for a given CBP-model.