Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert was invited keynote speaker at the rBPM’10 Workshop (International Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management) in Hoboken, New Jersey.
In his keynote speech entitled “Fostering Reuse in the Business Process Lifecycle: Challenges, Methods, Technologies” Prof. Reichert focused on some of the major challenges posed by the intelligent (re-)use of process artifacts in the different phases of the process lifecycle. He discussed characteristic reuse scenarios (e.g., reuse of process models, application services or process changes), presented advanced concepts for supporting them, and illustrated their application along selected process examples. This included a discussion of profound techniques for configuring, refactoring, adapting and evolving process models, for managing and mining process model variants, and for enabling the designers of process-aware information systems to implement processes in a “plug & play”-like fashion based on reusable and customizable process models and application services respectively. Respective techniques have been developed in DBIS research projects like AristaFlow, Provop, MinAdept and ProCycle.

The slides of Prof. Reichert’s keynote speech are available via the following link: Download PDF