Support for resources changes in configurable process models

Today, researches on business process models reuse are interested in configurable process modeling which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, enterprises are involved in a competitive environment which imposes them to often evolve their configurable process models in terms of activity, data and resource. So, creating configurable process models becomes insufficient since the configurable process models should evolve to meet new needs. To address this issue, we propose a reusable process patterns system for guiding designers in managing changes and evolution of configurable process models. In this paper, we focus on how to manage resources changes. We present one pattern of our proposed system, the variation point resource insertion process pattern. © 2014 IEEE.