Abstract
Companies are constantly changing their business process models. In team environments, different versions of a process model are created at the same time. These versions of a process model need to be merged from time to time to consolidate changes and create a new common version.
In this short paper, we propose a solution for modifying a merge result. The goal is to create a meaningful merge result by adding connector nodes to the model at specific locations. This increases the amount of possible result models and reduces additional implementation effort.
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This research was partially funded by the Ministry of Science of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, for the Doctoral Program Services Computing.
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Krauß, J., Schmollinger, M. (2019). Interactive Modification During the Merge of Graph-Based Business Process Models. In: Panetto, H., Debruyne, C., Hepp, M., Lewis, D., Ardagna, C., Meersman, R. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2019 Conferences. OTM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11877. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_35
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