Enhancing process-adaptation capabilities with web-based corporate radar technologies

ABSTRACT

Dynamic business processes are capable of adapting themselves to internal events but lack the ability to adapt to external events. Corporate radars are capable of mining the Web for external events of interest to produce structured representations of these events but are not capable of adapting themselves based on these events. In this position paper, we advocate and propose a system that integrates these two approaches to enhance the capability of process-adaptation engines, greatly increasing the scope of events they can respond to.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
corporate radars, dynamic business process, dynamic process adaptation