Change Propagation and Conflict Resolution for the Co-Evolution of Business Processes

Abstract

In large organizations, multiple stakeholders may modify the same business process. This paper addresses the problem when stakeholders perform changes on process views which become inconsistent with the business process and other views. Related work addressing this problem is based on execution trace analysis which is performed in a post-analysis phase and can be complex when dealing with large business process models. In this paper, we propose a design-based approach that can efficiently check consistency criteria and propagate changes on-the-fly from a process view to its reference process and related process views. The technique is based on consistent specialization of business processes and supports the control flow aspect of processes. Consistency checks can be performed during the design time by checking simple rules which support an efficient change propagation between views and reference process.

Conflict management techniques for model merging: a systematic mapping review

“…However, during the analysis of the obtained data, we noticed that the UML class diagram is the most considered structural modeling language. Moreover, a few conflict management approaches are designed to support behavioral modeling languages such as BPMN (e. g., A06 [56], A08 [60], and A30 [97]), UML state machine (e. g., A24 [83], A60 [137], and A68 [148]), and UML sequence diagram (e. g., A22 [80] and A45 [116]).…”

“…-Lack of support for all modeling language features reported by A22 [79] ; -Limitation on the ability of model checker to detect all conflictual conditions reported by A32 [99] ; -Lack of support for some change operators reported by A30 [97] ; -Limitation on the confidence of compatibility between locks reported by A07 [57] ; -Lack of support for cascading deletion in conflict resolution reported by A52 [123]. To answer this question, we consider the results of our review for approaches that have been proposed in the last 5.5 years (i. e., between 2016 to mid-2021), which includes 28 of 69 approaches.…”