Constraint-Based Flexible Business Process Management

Abstract

Business process management (BPM) has emerged as a dominant technology in current enterprise systems and business solutions. However, BPM technol¬ogy continues to face challenges in coping with dynamic business environments where requirements and goals are constantly changing and thus business users are demanding adaptive frameworks for process management. This dissertation presents a new approach for managing business processes that is conducive to dynamic change thus supporting the need for flexibility in execution. The approach is based on the notion of process constraints. It will be demon¬strated how the specification of so-called selection and scheduling constraints can lead to increased flexibility in process execution, while maintaining a desired level of control. A key feature and strength of the approach is to use the power of constraints, while still preserving the intuition and visual appeal of graphical lan¬guages for process modelling. Also addressed are a number of aspects including constraint modelling, specification and validation, as well as run time functions for supporting the evolution of business processes.

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