Authors:
Fatma Ellouze
1
;
Mohamed Amine Chaabane
1
;
Eric Andonoff
2
and
Rafik Bouaziz
1
Affiliations:
1
MIRACL and University of Sfax, Tunisia
;
2
IRIT and University of Toulouse 1, France
Keyword(s):
Collaborative Process, Flexibility, Version, VCP2M.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Models
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper addresses the collaborative processes flexibility issue, which is an important issue in Business
Process (BP) Management. Indeed, the strong competition in which organizations are involved lead them to
frequently change and adapt their collaborative processes to face new client requirements or to benefit from
new collaboration opportunities. More precisely, this paper proposes to adopt a version-based approach to
support the modelling of flexible collaborative processes. First it introduces the VBP2M meta-model
(Version of BP meta-model) supporting the modelling of flexible internal (i.e., intra-organizational)
processes, and then explains how to extend it to define the VCP2M meta-model (Version of Collaborative
Processes meta-model) to design flexible collaborative processes, which correspond to processes crossing
the boundaries of companies. A specific case study illustrates the modelling of collaborative process
versions as instances of VCP2M.