Heinrich, Bernd and Klier, Mathias and Zimmermann, Steffen (2015) Automated planning of process models: Design of a novel approach to construct exclusive choices. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, 78. pp. 1-14. ISSN 0167-9236, 1873-5797
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In times of dynamically changing markets, companies are forced to (re)design their processes quickly and frequently, which typically implies a significant degree of time-consuming and cost-intensive manual work. To alleviate this drawback, we envision the automated planning of process models. More precisely, we propose a novel algorithm for an automated construction of the control flow pattern 'exclusive choice', which constitutes an essential step toward an automated planning of process models. The algorithm is built upon an abstract representation language that provides a general and formal basis and serves as the vocabulary to define the planning problem. As part of our evaluation, we find that, based on a given planning problem, our algorithm is not subject to potential modeling failures. We further implement the approach in process planning software and analyze not only its feasibility and applicability by means of several real-world processes from different application contexts and companies but also its practical utility based on the criteria flexibility by definition, modeling costs, and modeling time. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; WEB SERVICES COMPOSITION; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; SCIENCE; SEARCH; Process model; Automated planning; Exclusive choice; Algorithm; Design science research |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II (Prof. Dr. Bernd Heinrich) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2019 11:12 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2019 11:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/4753 |
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