Refactoring Process Models in Large Process Repositories.

Weber, Barbara and Reichert, Manfred (2008) Refactoring Process Models in Large Process Repositories. In: Proc. 20th Int'l Conf. on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'08), June 2008, Montpellier, France.

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Abstract

With the increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAIS), large process model repositories have emerged. Over time respective models have to be re-aligned to the real-world business processes through customization or adaptation. This bears the risk that model redundancies are introduced and complexity is increased. If no continuous investment is made in keeping models simple, changes are becoming increasingly costly and error-prone. Though refactoring techniques are widely used in software engineering to address related problems, this does not yet constitute state-of-the art in business process management. Process designers either have to refactor process models by hand or cannot apply respective techniques at all. This paper proposes a set of behaviour-preserving techniques for refactoring large process repositories. This enables process designers to eectively deal with model complexity by making process models better understandable and easier to maintain.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: process refactoring, adaptive process, process repository
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 18 Apr 2008 19:41
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2011 10:24
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/191

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