Editorial: Managing large collections of business process models-Current techniques and challenges

  • Authors:
  • Remco Dijkman;Marcello La Rosa;Hajo A. Reijers

  • Affiliations:
  • -;Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia and NICTA Queensland Lab, PO Box 6020, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia;-

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Industry
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, business process management is an important approach for managing organizations from an operational perspective. As a consequence, it is common to see organizations develop collections of hundreds or even thousands of business process models. Such large collections of process models bring new challenges and provide new opportunities, as the knowledge that they encapsulate requires to be properly managed. Therefore, a variety of techniques for managing large collections of business process models is being developed. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the management techniques that currently exist, as well as the open research challenges that they pose.