Automated planning of process models: The construction of parallel splits and synchronizations

摘要

Efficient business processes play a major role in the success of companies. Business processes are captured and described by models that serve, for instance, as a starting point for implementing processes in a service-oriented way or for performance analysis. To support process modelers via methods and techniques (e.g., algorithms) in an automated manner, several research fields such as process mining and automated planning of process models have emerged. In particular, the aim of the latter research field is to enable the automated construction of process models using planning techniques. To this end, an automated construction of control flow patterns in process models is necessary. However, this task currently remains a widely unsolved issue for the central patterns parallel split and synchronization.