A framework for the specification and execution of declarative processes for adaptive case management

用于自适应案例管理的声明性流程的规范和执行的框架

• 批准号: 485486-2015
• 负责人: Mili, Hafedh
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=584990
• 关键词: framework; specification; execution; declarative; processes

Trisotech is a Montréal-based IT company that provides software consulting services and business process modeling and automation solutions. Founded in 1996, it now boasts 70+ employees and customers in Europe and North America. Trisotech's business process modeling and automation solutions are centered around its Digital Enterprise Suite (DES). DES is a suite of tools that enable non-technical business people to model, analyze, simulate, and execute various aspects of their business. With DES, Trisotech operates in a crowded and highly competitive BPMS market, and product innovation is key to its thriving. To this end, Trisotech wants to augment its BPM capabilities with full-fledged support for case management, which refers to flexible, knowledge-intensive business processes that characterize the work of many of today's knowledge workers. In particular, the Object Management Group has recently (2014) released the first version of the Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) standard, and Trisotech wants to be the first or one of the first BPMS vendor(s) to offer a tool for CMMN-compliant modeling, simulation, and execution of processes. This project aims at prototyping such a capability within the context of Trisotech's CMMN Modeler tool. In previous work, the applicant's research team has developed theoretical formalisms, algorithms, and tools for the specification and execution of "declarative processes". In such processes, the sequence of activities is not predetermined at process design time. Instead, it is determined during run-time based on a combination of domain knowledge-- specified declaratively as a set of constraints and dependencies between activities-- and the case at hand. Our execution engine guides "case managers", including by preemptively inhibiting those activities that lead to dead ends. In this project, we propose to adapt our work to the context of a CMMN-compliant case management tool, in general, and Trisotech's CMMN Modeler, in particular. We propose to do this through a realistic health care case study.

Trisotech是一家总部位于蒙特利尔的IT公司，提供软件咨询服务和业务流程 建模和自动化解决方案。公司成立于1996年，目前在欧洲拥有70多名员工和客户 和北美Trisotech的业务流程建模和自动化解决方案围绕其 数字企业套件（DES）。DES是一套工具，使非技术业务人员能够建模， 分析、模拟和执行其业务的各个方面。凭借DES，Trisotech在拥挤的 和竞争激烈的BPMS市场，产品创新是其蓬勃发展的关键。为此，Trisotech 希望通过对案例管理的全面支持来增强其BPM功能，案例管理指的是灵活， 知识密集型业务流程是当今许多知识工作者工作的特征。在 特别是，对象管理组最近（2014年）发布了Case的第一版 管理模型和符号（CMMN）标准，而Trisotech希望成为第一个或第一个 BPMS供应商提供符合CMMN的建模、模拟和流程执行工具。这 该项目的目的是在Trisotech的CMMN Modeler工具的背景下对这种能力进行原型设计。 在以前的工作中，申请人的研究团队已经开发了理论形式、算法和工具，用于 “声明性过程”的规范和执行。在这样的过程中，活动的顺序不是 在工艺设计时预先确定。相反，它是在运行时基于以下组合来确定的： 领域知识--以声明方式指定为活动之间的一组约束和依赖关系--以及 手头的案子我们的执行引擎指导“案例经理”，包括通过先发制人地阻止那些 导致死胡同的活动。在这个项目中，我们建议调整我们的工作， CMMN兼容的案例管理工具，特别是Trisotech的CMMN Modeler。我们 建议通过一个现实的医疗保健案例研究来做到这一点。