Towards a New Adaptation Engine for Self-Adaptation of BPMN Processes Instances

Abstract

In this paper we introduce an adaptation engine supporting self-adaptation of running BPMN process instances. This adaptation engine implements the MAPE-K (Monitor, Analyze, Plan, Execute, Knowledge) approach from autonomic computing for self-adaptation. The MAPE control loop aims at identifying the adaptation need and defining and executing the operations required to deal with these needs while the K is the knowledge needed for the MAPE control loop. More precisely, the paper presents the architecture of the adaptation engine: it details how autonomic managers responsible for self-adaptation of process instances implement the MAPE control loop.