Detecting and Resolving Process Model Differences in the Absence of a Change Log

  • Authors:

  • Jochen M. Küster;Christian Gerth;Alexander Förster;Gregor Engels

  • Affiliations:

  • IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland 8803;IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland 8803 and Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Business-driven development favors the construction of process models at different abstraction levels and by different people. As a consequence, there is a demand for consolidating different versions of process models by detecting and resolving differences. Existing approaches rely on the existence of a change log which logs the changes when changing a process model. However, in several scenarios such a change log does not exist and differences must be identified by comparing process models before and after changes have been made. In this paper, we present our approach to detecting and resolving differences between process models, in the absence of a change log. It is based on computing differences and deriving change operations for resolving differences, thereby providing a foundation for variant and version management in these cases.