Mauricio Salatino [https://community.jboss.org/people/salaboy21] created the 
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"Re: Process Inference"

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Hi Julio!
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> Julio Faerman wrote:
> 
> Hello colleagues,
> 
> When i am working in BPM projects, it is very common to have some or all of 
> this problems:
> 
> - The organization does not know the [whole] process
> 
> 
> *What do you mean by does not know the whole process? They can start with 
> simple models and improve them over the time*
> 
> 
> - The organization knows the process, but does not know how to model, deploy 
> or maintain it
> 
> *The IT Deparment + The Business Analyst will need to coordinate the whole 
> process lifecycle maintaince*
> 
> - The organization knows how to model, but the process is too complex, full 
> of special cases and exceptions
> 
> *That's why Drools and jBPM are together. You can model simple process and 
> let the Rules deal with exceptions*
> 
> - The organization is improving the process faster than software can keep up
> 
> *The idea of having processes and rules is to provide a declarative way to 
> improve the software to be up to date to the business requirements.*
> 
> 
> And other related issues i think you may also have found. Then i wonder...
> 
> What if we modeled the software so that the process engine could relate the 
> system state and events to user actions?
> 
> *This could be possible, but your description is too generic to even think in 
> a particular case.* 
> 
> 
> Given some time, the process could be infered from this data and the engine 
> automatically take the actions it has enough confidence (possibly undoable) 
> or ask the user otherwise.
> 
> *Now this sounds to probabilistic stuff.. you can do the same with rules and 
> fuzzy logic, but once again, you will probably need to be focused to a 
> particular case. At that point you will need to measure if creating complex 
> rules and mechanisms to auto update your system is more efficient that let 
> the users change the rules and processes by themselves.*
> 
> 
> Would this be any good in your organization, or is it just another bad idea?
Cheers
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