Ontology-Based Change Impact Assessment in Dynamic Business Processes

Kherbouche, Oussama Mohammed; Ahmad, Adeel; Bouneffa, Mourad; Basson, Henri

doi:10.1109/fit.2013.50

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“…Inter-process change management has received significant attention from the research community. Existing research provides a sound basis for change propagation [13,16,36,43,51,81], dependency analysis [7,8,10,12,30,31,36,45] and traceability analysis [22,25,71] for business process level changes. Most CIA approaches for inter-process impact analysis utilize graphbased or formal specification approaches for dependency analysis.…”

Section: Inter-process Impact Analysis and Propagationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing studies mainly categorize business process dependencies into control and data dependencies [7,10,31,84,93]. Control dependencies affect the sequential execution of business processes through conditions and iterations.…”

Section: Business Level Dependenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However these specifications suffer from lack of analytical capabilities [73]. To bridge this gap, various tools for formal specification of business processes and services have been utilized including petri nets [19,41,66], regular tree grammar [49], metagraphs [2], ontological specifications and semantic annotations [8,12,29,31,33,36,41], Kleen algebra [18], first order logic [73,91], PI Calculus [58], finite state machine [62], alloy [11], prolog [10,48] and process algebra [83].…”

Section: Dependency-based Impact Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review

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Ahmad

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Information Systems

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Section: Inter-process Impact Analysis and Propagationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Business Level Dependenciesmentioning

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Section: Dependency-based Impact Analysismentioning

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Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review

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Ahmad

Akhunzada

et al. 2015

Information Systems

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“…The paper also presents a tool that allows inferring using BPMN models and checking if it is compliant with the GDPR regulation. On the other hand, [47] introduced a methodology that relies on dependency analysis to identify entities that are dependent on other entities to assess the impact of the changes in business process models. For this purpose, an ontology describing dependency relationships was defined.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for assessing capability in organisations using enterprise models

Romero

Guédria

Panetto

et al. 2022

Journal of Industrial Information Integration

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Organisational assessments provide a view of the state of different aspects of an enterprise so as to understand its strengths, weaknesses and possible improvement paths. A relevant element used to perform assessments is the assessment framework, which contains the requirements that the entity must fulfil as well as other aspects. On the other hand, another essential element during an assessment is the Evidence, which is any type of data reflecting the state of the assessed entity. Among several possible assessment evidences, such as documents, e-mails, interview extracts, and questionnaires, Enterprise Models represented through a specific Modelling Language can serve as such, since they allow to describe diverse organisational aspects. Thus, they can provide useful information to be considered when performing an assessment. Notwithstanding, the analysis of the models is demanding in terms of time and resources, and reducing the effort to perform such analysis could improve the assessment process. Thus, a possible manner of improving the analysis process is to understand beforehand which type of information can be found within an enterprise model taking into consideration the modelling language that has been used to represent it and the list of requirements defined by the assessment framework used to perform the assessment. In this sense, this work introduces a method to identify the requirements, devised by an assessment framework, that can be answered through the analysis of modelling elements defined using a specific modelling language. We ground our approach on a Requirement Decomposition task following the Pseudo-Requirement Graph method, and the matching between requirements and modelling language elements following the Goal Question Metric paradigm. To validate our method, we perform separate evaluations of the BPMN and ArchiMate languages, to identify the set of requirements from the ISO/IEC 33020 international standard that can be answered through models that are defined using each language. We also introduce a case study based on the analysis of a concrete business process, following the proposed approach.

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“…IA has also been studied to some extent in the field of information systems, including business processes. In this context, IA has mainly been addressed for control flow changes (Zhou et al 2008;Dai et al 2009;Bouchaala et al 2014;Kherbouche et al 2013;Soffer 2005). Soffer (2005) discusses IA in business processes, referring to different kinds of changes including data values; however, no method for analyzing these impacts is provided.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Impact Analysis in Business Processes

2019

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Business processes and their outcomes rely on data whose values are changed during process execution. When unexpected changes occur, e.g., due to last minute changes of circumstances, human errors, or corrections of detected errors in data values, this may have consequences for various parts of the process. This challenges the process participants to understand the full impact of the changes and decide on responses or corrective actions. To tackle this challenge, the paper suggests a semi-automated approach for data impact analysis. The approach entails a transformation of business process models to a relational database representation, to which querying is applied, in order to retrieve process elements that are related to a given data change. Specifically, the proposed method receives a data item (an attribute or an object) and information about the current state of process execution (in the form of a trace upon which an unexpected change has occurred). It analyzes the impact of the change in terms of activities, other data items, and gateways that are affected. When evaluating the usefulness of the approach through a case study, it was found that it has the potential to assist experienced process participants, especially when the consequences of the change are extensive, and its locus is in the middle of the process. The approach contributes both to practice with tool-supported guidance on how to handle unexpected data changes, and to research with a set of impact analysis primitives and queries.

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Ontology-Based Change Impact Assessment in Dynamic Business Processes

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review

Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented enterprises: A systematic review

A framework for assessing capability in organisations using enterprise models

Data Impact Analysis in Business Processes

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