Supporting Adaptation Patterns in the Event-Driven Business Process Modeling Paradigm

The event-driven business process modeling has been emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional workflow-based business process-modeling paradigm. One of the influencing factors for using this new paradigm is the flexibility and the agility it provides in supporting business process change. Weber et al. have proposed 14 high-level adaptation patterns that need to be supported by a flexible process-aware information system irrespective of the chosen paradigm. In this paper we investigate whether the event-driven paradigm can satisfactorily support these adaptation patterns; if so, how an event-driven approach should support these adaptation patterns. We also point to the future research directions that this work can lead to.

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