Generating correct EPCs from configured C-EPCs

Process reference models play an important role for the alignment and configuration of commercial off-the-shelf Enterprise Systems to requirements of an organization. Recently, Configurable Event-driven Process Chains (C-EPCs) have been proposed as a language to support the modeldriven configuration of such Enterprise Systems. While some problems of generating correct EPCs from a configured CEPC have been discussed, up to now there is no implementation of an algorithm available to automate the configuration task. This paper presents a configuration algorithm that is guided by a minimality criterion. It details and extends a previous algorithm that has only been sketched so far. As a proof-of-concept the algorithm has been implemented. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; D.2.9 [Software Engineering]: Management--Software configuration management Keywords Business Process Modeling, Reference Modeling, Process Configuration

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Jan Mendling, Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
• Keywords: Algorithm, Applied Computing, Enterprise Systems, Process Reference Models, SAC 2006