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On Maintaining Consistency of Process Model Variants

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Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2010)

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Today’s enterprises are dynamic where many variances of business process models can exist due to several reasons such as: the need to target different customer types, rely on particular IT systems or comply with specific country regulations. Automated maintenance of the consistency between process variants is an important goal that saves the time and efforts of process modelers. In this paper, we present a query-based approach to maintain consistency among process variants. We maintain the link between the variant process models by means of defining process model views. These views are defined using, BPMN-Q, a visual query language for business process models. Therefore, dynamic evaluation for the defined queries of the process views guarantee that the process modeler is able to get up-to-date and consistent status of the process model. In addition, our view-based approach allows the building of a holistic view of related variants of the same process model.

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  1. Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

    Emilian Pascalau, Ahmed Awad & Mathias Weske

  2. National ICT Australia (NICTA), University of New South Wales, Australia

    Sherif Sakr

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California, 93106-5110, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Jianwen Su

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Pascalau, E., Awad, A., Sakr, S., Weske, M. (2011). On Maintaining Consistency of Process Model Variants. In: zur Muehlen, M., Su, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20511-8_28

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