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Nowadays business process models are a common approach to describe and analyse existing business processes and to create new processes in a structured way. However, with growing complexity of process models there is a lack of comprehensibility. Using existing notations, it is challenging or even impossible to define temporal and logical constraints between process steps that are not directly connected. We demonstrate a declarative approach for representing business processes that allows for configuration, i.e. selection of process steps, based on a component representation. In addition, we present ways to transform a configuration into a procedural process model using BPMN.
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Becker, M., Klingner, S. (2012). Towards Customer-Individual Configurations of Business Process Models. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_9
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