Towards Visualisation and
Analysis of Runtime Variability
in Execution Time of Business
Information Systems based on
Product Lines
Ildefonso Montero, Joaquín Peña, Antonio Ruiz-
Cortés
Department of Computer Languages and
Systems
University of Seville, Spain

Starting point

Hypothesis
Business Process as
Feature

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Starting point
Process Mining: knowledge
extraction from a concrete
business process definition
(BPD)
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Process
Subprocess
Mining

Process Mining overview
BP

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Our approach overview
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Analysis vs. Process Mining

Problem Description
The same business process is performed in
different contexts. The changes in a
company can be seen as inclusion and
exclusion of business subprocesses.
There exists several proposals that tries to
manage this variability using SPL techniques
PFE PEM
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Product vs Process

Our Goal
Visualisation and Analysis of Business
Process Definitions
Visualisation Analysis
Conceptual
Timing
PEM Framework
Diagrams

Visualisation

Analysis

Conceptual framework for research on
analysis

Conceptual framework for research on
analysis

Conceptual framework for research on
analysis

Conclusion
We claim that defining BPs using products
implies that higher level questions and
visualisation can be provided
Visualisation Analysis
Conceptual
Timing
PEM
Framework
Diagrams

Thanks
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