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Goal-oriented workflows enable workflow designers to easily include a high degree of flexibility while implementing and automating business process. In addition, modeling is based on the business goals of the organization instead of actions, allowing for better alignment with those goals. Combined with a distributed workflow management system, this allows for a highly agile workflow environment that can adapt to the business situation while maintaining the structure of a solid workflow model. However, one of the drawback of such processes is a lack of attribution of the actions of the workflow to specific goals. As a result, improvements to the monitoring side of process management are necessary in order to make such associations clearer and allow easier workflow analysis and reengineering. This paper presents an approach for a component-based event system that introduces a degree of structure to the events, enabling the association of events with the workflow model, facilitating real-time monitoring of goal-oriented process and process drilldown analysis.
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Jander, K., Braubach, L., Lamersdorf, W. (2015). Distributed Event Processing for Goal-Oriented Workflows. In: Camacho, D., Braubach, L., Venticinque, S., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing VIII. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 570. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10422-5_7
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