A Pattern-based Process Management System to flexibly execute Collaborative Tasks

Mamadou Lakhassane Cisse (1, 2) , Hanh Nhi Tran (1) , Samba Diaw (2) , Bernard Coulette (3, 4) , Alassane Bah (2)

1 IRIT-ARGOS - Advancing Rigorous Software and System Engineering
2 UMMISCO - Unité de modélisation mathématique et informatique des systèmes complexes [Bondy]
3 IRIT-SM@RT - Smart Modeling for softw@re Research and Technology
4 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

Managing collaborations during the execution of a process is complex and challenging, especially for managing the collaboration inside a task having multiple instances performed by various actors. Existing process management approaches propose either a rigid control for conducting such collaborative tasks or no control at all. Aiming at a more flexible way to execute and control multi-instance tasks, we investigate a solution based on late-binding mechanism to allow actors choosing dynamically suitable strategies to perform their collaboration. First, we propose a process modeling language which focuses on describing multi-instance tasks and their dynamic instances at execution time. Second, this language is then used to represent patterns capturing reusable collaboration strategies. A prototype of a pattern-based Process Management System has been developed to demonstrate the possible flexible execution of collaborative tasks.

Mots clés: Multi-instance task; Collaboration process pattern; Late-binding; Process execution; Process management

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Mamadou Lakhassane Cisse, Hanh Nhi Tran, Samba Diaw, Bernard Coulette, Alassane Bah. A Pattern-based Process Management System to flexibly execute Collaborative Tasks. 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2019), May 2019, Heraklion, Crète, Greece. pp.273-280. ⟨hal-02486110⟩