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Business Process Models

Change Management

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Christian Gerth

    1. Institute of Computer Science, Database and Information Systems, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7849)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 1-12

  3. Background

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 13-34

  4. Intermediate Representation

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 35-50

  5. Matching

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 51-64

  6. Difference Representation

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 65-85

  7. Difference Detection

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 87-105

  8. Dependency Analysis

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 107-130

  9. Equivalence Analysis

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 131-147

  10. Conflict Analysis

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 149-164

  11. Process Model Merging

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 165-175

  12. Tool Support

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 177-187

  13. Conclusion

    • Christian Gerth
    Pages 189-195

  14. Back Matter

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Driven by the need for a closer alignment of business and IT requirements, the role of business process models in the development of enterprise software systems has increased continuously. Similar to other software artifacts, process models are developed and refined in team environments by several stakeholders, resulting in different versions. These versions need to be merged in order to obtain an integrated process model. Existing solutions to this basic problem in the field of software configuration management are mainly limited to textual documents, e.g., source code.
This monograph presents a generally applicable framework for process model change management, which provides easy-to-use comparison and merging capabilities for the integration of different process model versions. The framework supports popular modeling languages such as BPMN, BPEL, or UML Activity Diagrams. Differences between process models are represented in terms of intuitive, high-level change operations. Equipped with a sophisticated analysis of dependencies and a semantic-aware computation of conflicts between differences, the framework constitutes a comprehensive and practically usable solution for process model change management in the model-driven development of enterprise software systems.

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  • Institute of Computer Science, Database and Information Systems, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Christian Gerth

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