This work presents a comparative study of the usage of compositional and annotational approaches in the modularization of software process lines. In our comparative study, an Open-UP based software process line extracted from three existing projects are modelled and implemented using the compositional and annotative approaches with the main aim to address a systematic variability management and...

To significantly decrease fossil carbon emissions from oil refineries, a combination of climate mitigation options will be necessary, with potential including energy efficiency, capture and storage/utilization, biomass integration electrification. Since existing refinery processes as well many the new are characterized by large heating demands, but also offer opportunities for process excess he...

Abstract. In this paper, we propose a technique for establishing process lines, which are sets of common processes in particular problem domains, and process line architectures that incorporate commonality and variability. Process line architectures are used as a basis for deriving process lines from the perspective of overall optimization. The proposed technique includes some extensions to the...

A common business process might exist in multiple variations in an enterprise, due to different legal requirements in different countries, deviations in the supporting IT infrastructure, or differences in the organisational structure. In order to explore and control such variability, we argue that the notion of a core process, the invariant nucleus of all process variants, might be applied. In ...