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This paper presents a new approach to managing dynamic business process changes based on business process change patterns. We identify and categorize business process change patterns that occur recurrently in a dynamic business environment. Several issues regarding management of process versions are discussed, and a pattern-based version management method for handling process changes more flexibly is explained in detail. We propose a mechanism for abstract process execution with runtime encapsulation of a business process, which can maximize the flexibility of process execution using multiple process versions. In addition, we propose a concept of process promotion and demotion that can dynamically choose an actual version of the process at run-time. With our pattern-based process change management and versioning approach, it is expected that the flexibility and efficiency of BPM systems can be enhanced significantly.
목차
1. Introduction
2. Pattern-based Approach to BPM
3. Business Process Change Patterns
3.1 Activity Split/Change
3.2 Activity Merge/Change
3.3 Activity Extend/Delete
3.4 Process designer supporting process change patterns
4. Version Management Based on Process Change Patterns
4.1 Version management of business processes
4.2 Abstract execution of business process
5. Conclusions
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