Title: Reconfigurable business process: a constraint-based approach

Authors: Priyanka Chakraborty; Anirban Sarkar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Abstract: Continuous and rapid changes in the business environment and user requirements demand a suitable design of business processes (BPs). Most of the existing approaches either add a large number of BP elements to the existing BP or replace the current BP with a new one. Thus, those approaches are expensive and less user-friendly. Conversely, the constraint-based approach results in a minimal amount of changes in the structure of BP. Additionally, this approach gives the privilege to the stakeholders. Additionally, this approach gives the privilege to the stakeholders to reconfigure the BPs according to their goal requirements. In this paper, a constraint-driven approach is proposed to achieve reconfigurability in BP. Constraints like data, gateway and ordering are considered in BPs. Several real-life case studies have been described in detail. Finally, an algorithm named reconfigurable business process achievement algorithm (RCBPA) has been proposed and implemented to achieve reconfigurability in BP.

Keywords: constraint-based reconfigurability; gateway constraints; ordering constraints; data constraints; reconfigurable business process.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2024.135771

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2024 Vol.18 No.1, pp.1 - 29

Received: 07 May 2021
Accepted: 30 Nov 2021
Published online: 05 Jan 2024 *

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