Organizations willing to employ workflow technology have to be prepared to undertake a significant investment of time and effort due to the exceptionally dynamic nature of the business environment. Today, it is unlikely that processes are modeled once to be repeatedly executed without any changes. Goal-oriented dynamic workflows are a promising approach to provide flexibility to the execution of business processes. Many goal-oriented frameworks exist in the literature to be used for the purpose. However, modeling goals is a burden for the business analyst. This work proposes an automatic approach for extracting goals from a business process for supporting adaptive workflows. The approach consists of a static analysis of the global workflow state. Goals derive from individual BPMN elements and their interactions. For validating the theory, we developed the BPMN2Goals tool, which has been used for supporting a middleware for self-adaptation.

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通过从 BPMN 中自动提取目标来支持动态工作流

由于业务环境异常动态的性质，愿意采用工作流技术的组织必须准备好投入大量时间和精力。今天，不太可能对流程进行一次建模以重复执行而不进行任何更改。面向目标的动态工作流是一种很有前途的方法，可以为业务流程的执行提供灵活性。文献中有许多面向目标的框架可用于此目的。然而，建模目标是业务分析师的负担。这项工作提出了一种从业务流程中提取目标以支持自适应工作流的自动方法。该方法包括对全局工作流状态的静态分析。目标源自各个 BPMN 元素及其交互。为了验证理论，