Requirements of dynamic business processes - a survey

Abstract

To keep up with the competition, organizations must be capable to dynamically change business process components at runtime. This problem has been relevant for many years; however, there is no proposed solution, which ensures the dynamicity. This paper presents analysis of related work on dynamic business processes, i.e. the analysis of definitions of dynamic business process and different views on dynamicity modelling in business processes. The paper overviews problems and proposed approaches, which are found in the literature, related to the dynamic business processes. The analysis shows that there is no common definition of a dynamic business process. Therefore, formulated problems and proposed approaches for implementing dynamic business processes differ in the analyzed papers. According to the analysis we propose a set of formalized requirements of dynamic business processes and our understanding of a dynamic business process. The analyzed approaches are incapable to implement the dynamicity of the business processes, since they do not meet all of our identified requirements. Therefore, the approach for dynamic business process modelling and simulation should be developed further.