Resource Controllability of Business Processes Under Conditional Uncertainty Matteo Zavatteri, Carlo Combi & Luca Viganò. Journal on Data Semantics (2021)

This paper proposes “conditional constraint networks with decisions (CCNDs) as a model to encode business processes that involve access control and conditional branches that may be both controllable and uncontrollable”. So it both provides a new extension of the CSP paradigm and a real-world motivation for it. The main citation to my work is to a paper with Mihaela Sabin on conditional constraint satisfaction.

I’m particularly happy to draw attention to this paper, as constraints researchers are perhaps unlikely to subscribe to the Journal on Data Semantics. Moreover, it appears that the journal will be ceasing publication this year. I’ve had the experience myself a few times of publishing in a journal that died shortly afterward; I’ve told myself that I was not culpable. I see that Zavatteri has a paper on Dynamic Controllability and (J,K)-Resiliency in Generalized Constraint Networks with Uncertainty in ICAPS 2020. Hope to see him publishing at the CP conference.