Process Science Group Acquires New DFG Project “MIB”

The DFG-funded project MIB (DFG, DE 1983/9-3) is a follow-up of the group’s past project “Handling Inconsistencies in Business Process Modeling (HI^BPM)” (DFG, DE 1983/9-1). Declarative Process Models consist of so-called business rules that are used to control the execution of business processes. Other than imperative process models, they allow any process execution as soon as the rules are complied with. Business rules are often maintained in repositories as part of process-aware application systems. An important task of business rules management is to maintain said repositories in coordination with running process instances in order to cope with inconsistencies, for instance. In our new project “Predictive and Interactive Management of Potential Inconsistencies in Business Rules (MIB)”, we will focus on the prediction of inconsistencies based on currently running process instances and on proactively avoiding them also considering human-in-the-loop approaches. The project starts in January 2024 and will be funded for three years.