@inproceedings{977824b5e493487381c9af218b2a0f16,
title = "Configuration rule mining for variability analysis in configurable process models",
abstract = "With the intention of design by reuse, configurable process models provide a way to model variability in reference models that need to be configured according to specific needs. Recently, the increasing adoption of configurable process models has resulted in a large number of configured process variants. Current research activities are successfully investigating the design and configuration of configurable process models. However, a little attention is attributed to analyze the way they are configured. Such analysis can yield useful information in order to help organizations improving the quality of their configurable process models. In this paper, we introduce configuration rule mining, a frequency-based approach for supporting the variability analysis in configurable process models. Basically, we propose to enhance configurable process models with configuration rules that describe the interrelationships between the frequently selected configurations. These rules are extracted from a large collection of process variants using association rule mining techniques. To show the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach, we conduct experiments on a dataset from SAP reference model.",
author = "Nour Assy and Walid Gaaloul",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.; 10th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, WESOA 2014, 1st Workshop on Resource Management in Service-Oriented Computing, RMSOC 2014, 1st International Workshop on Knowledge-Aware Service-Oriented Applications Performance Assessment and Auditing in Service Computing 2012, KASA 2014, Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds, ISC 2014, 3rd International Workshop on Self-Managing Pervasive Service Systems, SeMaPS 2014, 1st International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Verification of Service-Based Systems, FOR-MOVES 2014, 4th International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications, CCSA 2014 and Satellite Events held in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014 ; Conference date: 03-11-2014 Through 06-11-2014",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-45391-9\_1",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1--15",
editor = "Xavier Franch and Ghose, \{Aditya K.\} and Lewis, \{Grace A.\} and Sami Bhiri",
booktitle = "Service-Oriented Computing - 12th International Conference, ICSOC 2014, Proceedings",
}