Modelling business process variants using graph transformation rules

Christine Natschläger, V. Geist, Christa Illibauer, R. Hutter
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Business process variability is an active research area in the field of business process management and deals with variations and commonalities among processes of a given process family. Many theoretical approaches have been suggested in the last years; however, practical implementations are rare and limited in their functionality. In this paper, we propose a new approach for business process variability based on well-known graph transformation techniques and with focus on practical aspects like definition of variation points, linking and propagation of changes, as well as visual highlighting of differences in process variants. The suggested concepts are discussed within a case study comprising two graph transformation systems for generating process variants; one supports variability by restriction, the other supports variability by restriction and by extension. Both graph transformation systems are proven to be globally deterministic, but differ regarding their complexity. The overall approach is being implemented in the BPM suite of our partner company.
使用图转换规则对业务流程变量建模
业务流程可变性是业务流程管理领域的一个活跃研究领域,它处理给定流程族中流程之间的变化和共性。在过去的几年里,人们提出了许多理论方法;然而,实际的实现很少,而且功能有限。在本文中,我们提出了一种基于众所周知的图转换技术的业务流程可变性的新方法,并着重于实际方面,如变异点的定义,变化的链接和传播,以及过程变体差异的可视化突出显示。在一个案例研究中讨论了建议的概念,该案例研究包括用于生成过程变体的两个图转换系统;一个通过限制来支持可变性,另一个通过限制和扩展来支持可变性。这两种图变换系统都被证明是全局确定性的,但是它们的复杂度不同。整个方法正在我们的合作伙伴公司的BPM套件中实现。
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