@conference { ISI:000380409500062,
	title = {Configurable process models : a semantic validation},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Nowadays, variability management has been introduced in the field of business process modeling by means of the configurable process models solution, with a view to resolving problems of redundancy and design time errors. Nevertheless, the existing approaches of variability modeling lack of semantic representation, and consequently, present many limits regarding automation of modeling, configuring and evolving configurable processes. Recently, semantic web technologies, especially ontologies, have been proposed in order to increase the level of automation and reduce human intervention in different domains. Business process management has benefited from the emergence of these technologies and the concept of semantic business process management appeared to make the whole business process accessible to intelligent queries as for machine reasoning. Whereas most approaches focus on providing mechanisms for modeling and configuring process models, their validation was treated syntactically rather than semantically. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach to enhance configurable processes validation using ontologies.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@conference { ISI:000380428300019,
	title = {Semantic Variability Modeling in Business Processes: A Comparative Study},
	booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND SECURED TRANSACTIONS (ICITST)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions{*}, London, ENGLAND, DEC 08-10, 2014},
	pages = {131-136},
	abstract = {Business Process Management (BPM) is an approach that aligns information systems (IT view) with business processes (Business view). Both the dynamic environment of business and the fast changes in requirements have created the need to reuse business processes in order to gain in cost and time. To enhance reuse in BPM, significant research efforts have been made on the development of methods and languages in order to support variability modeling. However, there is no single standard for modeling variability in configurable process models. Each modeling language integrating variability proposes its own method for representing variability, and different representations are used to express the same variability concepts. In addition to that, human intervention is still mandatory in order to create, configure and evolve configurable process models. With semantic annotations and the usage of ontology, these tasks could be automated. In this paper, we propose a comparative study to assess variability modeling approaches in software engineering domains, which include software product line engineering, services engineering and process engineering. This comparative study is conducted in terms of semantics use.},
	isbn = {978-1-908320-39-1},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600001,
	title = {Towards a semantic enrichment of configurable process models},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {1-6},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {In recent years, the concept of Semantic business process management has attracted significant research work, with the emergence of semantic web technologies (SW), which aimed to describe resources in a formal representation with clearly defined semantics in order to be machine-readable. Enriching business process with semantics improves the representation of processes and permits the automation of different tasks such as modeling, configuration, evolution, and promotes more flexible and adaptive solutions according to business requirement changes. Nowadays, the key concept of reuse in Business Process Management is the Configurable Process Model (CPM) solution which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, existing approaches in CPM lack of semantic representation. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach for enriching Configurable Process Models with semantics, as a first step towards the enhancement of the CPM evolution process.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
