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Context-Aware Adaptive Process Information Systems: The Context-BPMN4V Meta-Model

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Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2014)

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This paper introduces Context-BPMN4V, an extension of BPMN for modeling variability of processes using versions and also considering their contextual dimension. More precisely, it shows how we extend BPMN meta-models to support version modeling to deal with process adaptation, along with context modeling to characterize the situations in which instances of processes are executed. Because of space limitation, this paper only focuses on intra-organizational processes.

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    Imen Ben Said, Mohamed Amine Chaabane & Rafik Bouaziz

  2. IRIT/UT1-Capitole, 2 rue du doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042, Toulouse, France

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Ben Said, I., Chaabane, M.A., Andonoff, E., Bouaziz, R. (2014). Context-Aware Adaptive Process Information Systems: The Context-BPMN4V Meta-Model. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Trajcevski, G., Kon-Popovska, M. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10933-6_27

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