Paper Info
Title
Refactoring Process Models in Large Process Repositories
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 effectively deal with model complexity by making process models better understandable and easier to maintain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_9
CA(i)SE
Keywords
Field
DocType
large process repositories,process model,process models,refactoring technique,business process management,time respective model,model redundancy,model complexity,large process repository,process designer,real-world business process,large process model repository,process design,software engineering,business process
Artifact-centric business process model,Business process management,Data mining,Systems engineering,Business process,Software engineering,Computer science,Business process modeling,Business process discovery,Code refactoring,Business Process Model and Notation,Process mining
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5074
0302-9743
38
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.64
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Weber1120056.07
Manfred Reichert24722373.03