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Pattern-based Business Process Change Management in Dynamic Business Environment  

Kim, Dongsoo (Department of Industrial and Information Systems Engineering, Soongsil University)
Kim, Minsoo (Department of Systems Management & Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of Information Technology and Architecture / v.10, no.3, 2013 , pp. 295-303 More about this Journal
Abstract
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.
Keywords
business process management; process change pattern; process version;
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