Automated Planning of Process Models: TheConstruction of Exclusive Choices

In our competitive world, companies need to adapt their processesquickly in order to react, for instance, to changing customerdemands. Process models, as means to support processmanagement, are nowadays often created and adapted in a timeconsuming,widely used manual manner. Semantic BusinessProcess Management in combination with planning approaches canalleviate this drawback by enabling an automated planning ofprocess models. This paper describes the drawbacks that existingplanning algorithms have related to the creation of process models.Therefore, we introduce - based on the design science paradigm -an innovative algorithm (method) that is suitable for the planningof process models focusing on the construction of the control flowpattern exclusive choice. Demonstrating the feasibility and theeffectiveness of our method, we implemented our approach as aprototype. Finally, we evaluate the algorithm in terms of differentproperties li...