Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems Challenges, Methods, Technologies /

• Main Authors: Reichert, Manfred (Author), Weber, Barbara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; IT in Business.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

In today’s dynamic business world, the success of a company increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. Companies have therefore identified process agility as a competitive advantage to address business trends like increasing product and se...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Basic Concepts and Flexibility Issues
• Introduction
• Process-Aware Information Systems
• Flexibility Issues in Process-Aware Information Systems
• Part II Flexibility Support for Pre-Specified Processes
• Process Modeling & Flexibility-by-Design
• Process Configuration Support
• Exception Handling
• Ad-hoc Changes of Process Instances
• Monitoring and Mining Flexible Processes
• Process Evolution and Instance Migration
• Business Process Compliance
• Part III Flexibility Support for Loosely-Specified Processes
• Concretizing Loosely-Specified Processes
• Constraint-based Process Models
• Part IV User- and Data-driven Processes
• User- and Data-driven Processes
• A Framework for Object-Aware Processes
• Part V Technologies Enabling Flexibility Support in Process-Aware Information Systems
• AristaFlow BPM Suite
• Alaska Simulator Toolset
• Existing Tool Support for Flexible Processes
• Part VI Summary, References, Appendices
• Epilogue
• Overview of BPMN Elements.