Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 1833-1845Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2022.3190987
Keywords
GSM; Business; Feature extraction; Software; Process modeling; Licenses; Data mining; Data-centric processes; process fragments; feature composition; variability management; case management; business artifacts
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Data-centric process management enables knowledge workers to perform knowledge-intensive processes flexibly. Process templates, manually modified to suit the context of specific cases, are a key component. Extracting reusable fragments from process variants enhances efficiency and improves the quality of complex data-centric processes.
Data-centric process management supports knowledge workers in performing knowledge-intensive processes in a flexible way. An essential ingredient of data-centric process management are process templates that are manually modified for a specific case to suit the context of that case. Modifying templates results in many different yet related process variants. However, manually modifying a template is time consuming and may lead to errors. This article defines an approach to extract reusable fragments from data-centric process variants. The set of extracted fragments is minimal. By composing the fragments not only the input variants but many more process variants can be derived. We have implemented the approach in a prototype and evaluated it on several business processes. Using the fragment extraction approach, complex data-centric process variants can be designed more efficiently and their quality can improve, since well-known modifications are applied.
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