Towards a DSPL for Context Aware BPM

Extant BPM models and methods seem to focus on well-defined, structured and too rigid development process. This latter follows an internally oriented business model implemented with an inside-out approach, with internal focus problem-solving. While driving innovation in today’s digital age with it’s emerging new technologies such as big data analytics which provide prediction of future events based on real-time information are being integrated into BPM, additional core values like capabilities for dynamic adaptation, autonomic behavior, runtime reconfiguration and post-deployment activities are called for to manage unforeseen scenarios at runtime in a situated and changeable context. Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) is an emerging paradigm that supports these runtime variability mechanisms. However, few works exploiting DSPLs principles and techniques in the BPM domain have been proposed so far.In this paper, we propose a conceptual approach DynPL4CBPM as an extension of DynPL4BPM, which integrates DSPLs concepts along with the entire related dynamic properties, still not used together, to the whole BPM lifecycle in order to dynamically adapt business processes according to different context conditions in an individual environment.