The ADEPT Project: A Decade of Research and Development for Robust and Flexible Process Support - Challenges and Achievements

Dadam, Peter and Reichert, Manfred (2009) The ADEPT Project: A Decade of Research and Development for Robust and Flexible Process Support - Challenges and Achievements. Computer Science - Research and Development, 23 (2). pp. 81-97. ISSN 1865-2034

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Abstract

This paper gives insights into the ADEPT project. Its target was to develop a next generation process management technology, which is by orders of magnitudes more powerful and flexible than contemporary process management systems. The ADEPT technology should provide advanced features and properties within one system, which seem to exclude each other, but which are required for the support of a broad spectrum of processes: ease-of-use for end users and system developers, high flexibility through the support of non-trivial ad-hoc deviations at the process instance level, quick implementation of process changes through process schema evolution, and correctness guarantees enabling robust execution of implemented processes. This paper describes the background and the real-world cases which motivated our research. It further explains the technological challenges we faced, describes the solutions we elaborated, and discusses the current status of the ADEPT project.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Workflow Management, Business Process Management, Process Flexibility, Process Change, Correctness by Construction, Robustness
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2009 17:19
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2011 10:26
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/486

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