Short Papers from the 6 th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing ( SummerSOC ’ 12 )

Flexible and unstructured process handling has become very common in business primarily due to continuous changes in the business environment. Flexible processes consist of a series of activities that cannot be predefined. In this paper, we provide an overview of flexible processes and analysis used to understand their behavior. We also suggest four open areas of research regarding how to quickly build and improve process models and to enrich the functionality of flexible processes. The work in this paper is an extended version of a project presentation, based on topics from [3], presented at the 6th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (http://www.summersoc.eu/summersoc2012/), held on July 2-7, 2012 in Hersonissos, Greece.