Merging Business Process Models

Rosa, Marcello La; Dumas, Marlon; Uba, Reina; Dijkman, Remco

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16934-2_10

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“…CBP models are typically created by hand (1) from scratch, (2) from an existing BP model by including possible adaptations [8], or (3) by merging some BP models related to the same or similar goals which already exist [15]. In the latter case, there exist approaches focused on automatically merging different BP models into a CBP model [14,15].…”

Section: Configurable Bp Modelsmentioning

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Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Supporting Users during the Execution of Declarative Business Process Models

Ramirez

Barba

Weber

et al. 2014

Business Information Systems

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Abstract. When designing an imperative business process (BP) model, analysts have to face many design requirements (e.g., managing uncertainty, optimizing conflicting objective functions). To facilitate such design, declarative BP models are increasingly used. However, how to execute a given declarative model can be quite challenging since there are typically several variants related to such model, each one presenting different degree of goodness. To support users working on declarative models while a high flexibility is maintained, we propose removing the worst variants from the source declarative model at design time while keeping the best variants. This way, the variants which are kept are narrowed down incrementally during run-time. For managing these variants during run-time we suggest to build upon configurable BP models. To configure such models, we additionally propose to automatically generate questionnaires. The results over a real case study are promising.

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Section: Configurable Bp Modelsmentioning

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“…To analyze the behavior of the method against different complexities, the 259 configurable nodes were grouped considering OB. In particular 4 groups were considered: OB ∈ [2, 5), OB ∈ [5,8), OB ∈ [8,11) and OB ∈ [11,14) (cf. Table.…”

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Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Supporting Users during the Execution of Declarative Business Process Models

Ramirez

Barba

Weber

et al. 2014

Business Information Systems

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“…Such languages include Configurable EPCs [74,31], aggregated EPCs [62], and the variant rich process models [76], which pick up ideas and concepts from modeling of software product families and feature diagrams [26,94]. The definition of generic process models relates to identifying similar process models with overlapping behaviour [89,14,12,99] and integrating them into a single model [57,45,21,70].This integration is a particular instance of RF8, which aims to remove redundancies.…”

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Refactoring large process model repositories

Weber

Reichert

Mendling

et al. 2011

Computers in Industry

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With the increasing adoption of process-aware information systems, large process model repositories have emerged. Typically, the models in such repositories are re-aligned to real-world events and demands through adaptation on a day-to-day basis. This bears the risk of introducing model redundancies and of unnecessarily increasing model complexity. If no continuous investment is made in keeping process models simple, changes will become more difficult and error-prone over time. Although refactoring techniques are widely used in software engineering to address similar problems, so far, no comparable state-of-the-art has evolved in the business process management domain. Process designers either have to refactor process models by hand or are simply unable to apply respective techniques at all. This paper proposes a catalogue of process model "smells" for identifying refactoring opportunities. In addition, it introduces a set of behavior-preserving techniques for refactoring large process repositories. The proposed refactorings enable process designers to effectively deal with model complexity by making process models better understandable and easier to maintain. The refactorings have been evaluated using large process repositories from the healthcare and automotive domain. To demonstrate the feasibility of the refactoring techniques, a proof-of-concept prototype has been implemented.

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“…Our work instead provides a precise definition of how to determine the behavioural intersection of two process models. There is also work that aims to determine the union of the behaviour captured by two process models [10,11,12,13]. None of these works has been integrated and extended towards the definition of an algebra.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Throughout this paper, we will demonstrate that the essential variant management questions can be answered based on set algebraic operations of complementation, intersection, and union, and the relations of set equivalence and inclusion. Although there are several works on particular subsets of these aspects such as inclusion (or behaviour inheritance) [7,8,9] and union (or merging behaviour) [10,11,12,13], we currently miss an overarching set algebra which provides the means to efficiently calculate with behaviour.…”

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A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

Weidlich

Mendling

Weske

2011

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

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Abstract. A business process often shows different variations in a large organisation, due to different legal requirements in different countries, deviations in the IT infrastructure, or organisational differences. These variants are documented in separate independent process models. Management of these variants imposes various challenges. Invariant behaviour needs to be identified and redundancies among the variants have to be avoided. In this paper, we address these questions by defining a set-algebra for behavioural profiles. These profiles represent a behavioural abstraction of process models that can be computed efficiently. We trace back many questions of process variability management to set-theoretic operations and relations defined for behavioural profiles. As a validation, we apply our approach to an industry model collection.

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Merging Business Process Models

Cited by 78 publications

References 29 publications

Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Supporting Users during the Execution of Declarative Business Process Models

Automatic Generation of Questionnaires for Supporting Users during the Execution of Declarative Business Process Models

Refactoring large process model repositories

A Foundational Approach for Managing Process Variability

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