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Relationship-Preserving Change Propagation in Process Ecosystems

Relationship-Preserving Change Propagation in Process Ecosystems

  • Tri A. Kurniawan20,
  • Aditya K. Ghose20,
  • Hoa Khanh Dam20 &
  • …
  • Lam-Son Lê20 
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Abstract

As process-orientation continues to be broadly adopted – evidenced by the increasing number of large business process repositories, managing changes in such complex repositories becomes a growing issue. A critical aspect in evolving business processes is change propagation: given a set of primary changes made to a process in a repository, what additional changes are needed to maintain consistency of relationships between various processes in the repository. In this paper, we view a collection of interrelated processes as an ecosystem in which inter-process relationships are formally defined through their annotated semantic effects. We also argue that change propagation is in fact the process of restoring consistency-equilibrium of a process ecosystem. In addition, the underlying change propagation mechanism of our framework is leveraged upon the well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) technology. Our initial experimental results indicate the efficiency of our approach in propagating changes within medium-sized process repositories.

Keywords

  • inter-process relationship
  • semantic effect
  • process ecosystem
  • change propagation
  • constraint network

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  1. Decision Systems Lab., School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Tri A. Kurniawan, Aditya K. Ghose, Hoa Khanh Dam & Lam-Son Lê

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  1. Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, 3122, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

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  3. LIMOS - UMR 6158, Blaise Pascal University, Complexe scientifique des Cézeaux, 63177, Aubiere, France

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Kurniawan, T.A., Ghose, A.K., Dam, H.K., Lê, LS. (2012). Relationship-Preserving Change Propagation in Process Ecosystems. In: Liu, C., Ludwig, H., Toumani, F., Yu, Q. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34321-6_5

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