BPFlexTemplate: A Business Process template generation tool based on similarity and flexibility

Ilahi, Latifa; Ghannouchi, Sonia Ayachi; Martinho, Ricardo

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BPFlexTemplate: A Business Process template generation tool based on similarity and flexibility

2017-09-14Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Ilahi, Latifa
dc.contributor.author	Ghannouchi, Sonia Ayachi
dc.contributor.author	Martinho, Ricardo
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-11T09:24:52Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-11T09:24:52Z
dc.date.issued	2017-09-14
dc.description.abstract	In large organizations with multiple organizational units, process variants emerge due to many aspects, including local management policies, resources or socio-technical limitations. Organizations then struggle to improve a business process which has no longer a single process model to redesign, implement and adjust. In this paper, we propose an approach to tackle these two challenges: decrease the proliferation of process variants in these organizations, and foresee, at the same time, the need of having flexible business processes that allow for a certain degree of adjustment. To validate our approach, we first conducted case studies where we collected six real-world business process variants from two organizational units of the same healthcare organization. We then proposed an algorithm to derive a template process model from all the variants, which includes common and flexible process elements. We implemented our approach in a software tool called BPFlexTemplate, and tested it with the elicited variants.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Ilahi, Latifa & Ghannouchi, Sonia & Martinho, Ricardo. (2017). BPFlexTemplate: A Business Process template generation tool based on similarity and flexibility. IJISPM - International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management. 5. 67-89. 10.12821/ijispm050304
dc.identifier.doi	10.12821/ijispm050304
dc.identifier.issn	2182-7788
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14045
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	Semantic Scholar
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.sciencesphere.org/ijispm/
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
dc.rights.uri	N/A
dc.subject	BPM
dc.subject	Process variants
dc.subject	Template model
dc.subject	Generalisation
dc.subject	Healthcare processes
dc.subject	Similarity metrics
dc.title	BPFlexTemplate: A Business Process template generation tool based on similarity and flexibility	eng
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.endPage	89
oaire.citation.issue	3
oaire.citation.startPage	67
oaire.citation.title	International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
oaire.citation.volume	5
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person.givenName	Ricardo
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