Propagating changes between aligned process models

Abstract

There is a wide variety of drivers for business process modelling initiatives, reaching from organisational redesign to the development of information systems. Consequently, a common business process is often captured in multiple models that overlap in content due to serving different purposes. Business process management aims at flexible adaptation to changing business needs. Hence, changes of business processes occur frequently and have to be incorporated in the respective process models. Once a process model is changed, related process models have to be updated accordingly, despite the fact that those process models may only be loosely coupled. In this article, we introduce an approach that supports change propagation between related process models. Given a change in one process model, we leverage the behavioural abstraction of behavioural profiles for corresponding activities in order to determine a change region in another model. Our approach is able to cope with changes in pairs of models that are not related by hierarchical refinement and show behavioural inconsistencies. We evaluate the applicability of our approach with two real-world process model collections. To this end, we either deduce change operations from different model revisions or rely on synthetic change operations.

Comparing and Aligning Process Representations

“…This problem can occur when different artifacts contradict each other, for instance when the artifacts have been developed independently [224]. The information captured in artifacts may also lose their validity over time if artifacts are not updated to reflect process changes [280]. When users execute a process based on invalid information, they may perform the process in an incorrect manner, resulting in business process noncompliance [30].…”

Taksonomi Dan Formalisasi Relasi Antar Model Proses Bisnis Berbasis Anotasi Efek

“…Mengelola perubahan proses dalam sebuah repositori model proses bisnis yang kompleks seperti itu bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah karena diperlukan mekanisme penjalaran perubahan jika harus mempertahankan kesetimbangan relasi antar proses (Chua & Hossain, 2012) ) (Weidlich, et al, 2012) (Mafazi, et al, 2013). Hal yang sama juga terjadi pada relasi antara proses dengan servis yang bersesuaian dalam sebuah sistem berbasis servis (Wang, et al, 2012).…”

The 4C Spectrum of Fundamental Behavioral Relations for Concurrent Systems

“…These techniques include discovery algorithms, such as the α-algorithm [32], as well as methods for checking conformance between models and events [33]. Also, basic behavioral relations are the foundation for techniques for model synchronization [34]. Here, a change that is located using behavioral relations in one model helps to locate a region for applying the change in another model.…”