Business process modeling aware to the environment changes - A pattern driven approach

Nowadays enterprises perform in an extremely competitive business environment, therefore business processes, although complex must be highly flexible to react to new demands. This purpose implies that these processes should be continuously maintained through a flexible modeling. This paper addresses this problem and provides a process modeling approach able to govern the high variability of the environment parameters affecting the processes in use, through the well-known pattern paradigm and the decision tables formalism. Furthermore, the authors discuss the experience of the proposed approach in a real case. Results are encouraging and drive further investigations in such a way.