The Deployment of an Enhanced Model-Driven Architecture for Business Process Management
Richard McClatchey

TL;DR
This paper presents an enhanced, self-describing, version-controlled business process management system based on a description-driven approach, enabling dynamic evolution and traceability of workflows to meet changing business needs.
Contribution
It introduces a novel application of the CRISTAL description-driven architecture to business process management, allowing dynamic system evolution and provenance tracking.
Findings
Enables dynamic adaptation of business processes
Supports versioning and traceability of workflows
Demonstrates successful deployment in real-world business scenarios
Abstract
Business systems these days need to be agile to address the needs of a changing world. Business modelling requires business process management to be highly adaptable with the ability to support dynamic workflows, inter-application integration (potentially between businesses) and process reconfiguration. Designing systems with the in-built ability to cater for evolution is also becoming critical to their success. To handle change, systems need the capability to adapt as and when necessary to changes in users requirements. Allowing systems to be self-describing is one way to facilitate this. Using our implementation of a self-describing system, a so-called description-driven approach, new versions of data structures or processes can be created alongside older versions providing a log of changes to the underlying data schema and enabling the gathering of traceable (provenance) data. The…
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