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# BPMDS '06
SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING, DEVELOPMENT, AND SUPPORT: REQUIREMENTS FOR FLEXIBILITY AND THE WAYS TO ACHIEVE IT

### Proceedings of the CAISE*06 Workshop on
Business Process Modelling, Development, and Support
BPMDS '06
Luxemburg, June 5-9, 2006.

Edited by

### Gil Regev *
Pnina Soffer #
Rainer Schmidt +

* Laboratory of Systemic Modeling, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
# Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel
+ Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany

## Table of Contents

Preface
Gil Regev, Pnina Soffer, Rainer Schmidt

### Keynote

Flexibility: Change, but Change What?
Alain Wegmann

### Results from BPMDS '05

Taxonomy of Flexibility in Business Processes
G. Regev, P. Soffer, R. Schmidt

### Modeling for flexibility

1. Compliant and Flexible Business Processes with Business Rules
   S. Goedertier, J. Vanthienen
2. Supporting Planned and Ad-Hoc Changes of Business Processes
   P. Rittgen
3. A Role-Based Approach for Modeling Flexible Business Processes
   O. Saidani, S. Nurcan

### Flexibility of process type and instance

1. On Controlled Flexibility
   S. Ellegaard Borch, C. Stefansen
2. Controling the level of business process instance flexibility via rules of planning
   I. Bider and A. Striy

### Flexibility within a context

1. Defining Requirements for Business Process Flexibility
   K. Kumar, M. M. Narasipuram
2. Context-aware Process Design Exploring the Extrinsic Drivers for Process Flexibility
   M. Rosemann, J. Recker
3. Flexibility in Service Processes
   R. Schmidt

### Process mining

1. Using Process Mining to Analyze and Improve Process Flexibility
   W.M.P. van der Aalst, C. Günther, J. Recker, M. Reichert
2. Incremental Workflow Mining for Process Flexibility
   E. Kindler, V. Rubin, W. Schäfer

### Theory application

1. Business Process Flexibility in Virtual Organizations
   P. Soffer, J. Ghattas
2. Business Process Flexibility: Weick's Organizational Theory to the Rescue
   G. Regev, A. Wegmann

### Industrial talk

IT Service Processes -- State and Open Issues
R. Schmidt

Note: The proceedings of this workshop also appeared in printed version In T. Latour and M. Petit (eds), Proceedings of Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, The 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering - Trusted Information Systems (CAiSE'06), June 5-9, 2006, Presses Universitaires de Namur, 2006, ISBN 2-87037-525-5. Click here to get a copy.

submitted by Pnina Soffer, M. Petit, 16-Jul-2007
published on CEUR-WS.org, 16-Jul-2007