Context-based Process Line

Complexity and dynamism of day-to-day activities in organizations are inextricably linked, one impacting the other, increasing the challenges for constant adaptation of the way to organize work to address emerging demands. In this scenario, there are a variety of information, insight and reasoning being processed between people and systems, during process execution. We argue that process variations could be decided in real time, using context information collected. This paper presents a proposal for a business process line cycle, with a set of activities encapsulated in the form of components as central artefact. We explain how composition and adaptation of work may occur in real time and discuss a scenario for this proposal.

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