Cognini R., Corradini F., Gnesi S., Polini A., Re B.
Mechanisms Process aware information systems Variability Adaptability Information Systems Languages Business process management Computer Networks and Communications Flexibility Business process Looseness Theoretical Computer Science Cases study Evolution Software Business process life-cycle Systematic literature review
Business Process flexibility supports organizations in changing their everyday work activities to remain competitive. Since much research has been done on this topic a better awareness on the current state of knowledge is needed. This paper reports the results of a systematic literature review to develop a map on Business Process flexibility with a special focus on software systems related aspects. It covers a spectrum of the state of the art from academic point of view. It includes 164 research works from the main computer science digital libraries. After an introduction into the topic the applied methodology is described. The output of the paper is in the form of schemes and reflections. Starting from the needs for Business Process flexibility, its impact on Business Process life-cycle is introduced. Successively instruments used to express and to support Business Process flexibility are presented together with related validation scenarios. In this paper we also highlight possible future research lines needing further investigations. In particular we identified room for future works in the area of languages for modeling flexibility, on-the-fly verification solutions, adaptation of Business Process running instances, and techniques for evolution recognition.
Source: Information systems frontiers (Print) 20 (2018): 343–371. doi:10.1007/s10796-016-9678-2
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Paesi Bassi
@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:366876, title = {Business process flexibility - a systematic literature review with a software systems perspective}, author = {Cognini R. and Corradini F. and Gnesi S. and Polini A. and Re B.}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Paesi Bassi}, doi = {10.1007/s10796-016-9678-2}, journal = {Information systems frontiers (Print)}, volume = {20}, pages = {343–371}, year = {2018} }