An Inductive Approach to the Acquisition and Adaptation of Work

Current workkow management systems (WFMS) ooer little aid for the acquisition of workkow models and their adaptation to changing requirements. To support these activities we propose an approach, that induces workkow models from workkow instances. In this contribution we focus on the induction of the workkow structure and report about ongoing research in this area. We deene four problem classes in terms of characteristics of the target model. For three of these classes solutions are presented. These solutions have been implemented in a research prototype, which we have validated using artiicially generated workkow instances. The induced workkow models can be imported by the commercial business process management system ADONIS 1. We also outline a solution of the fourth and most general problem class.