Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation
IEEE Software
A taxonomy of variability realization techniques: Research Articles
Software—Practice & Experience
Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Factors Influencing Business Process Standardization: A Multiple Case Study
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Representing process variation with a process family
ICSP'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Software process
Survey paper: Refactoring large process model repositories
Computers in Industry
Identifying refactoring opportunities in process model repositories
Information and Software Technology
Process variation analysis using empirical methods: a case study
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
A discourse on complexity of process models
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Business Process Management Workshops
Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Oftentimes business processes exist not as singular entities that can be managed in isolation, but as families of variants that need to be managed together. When it comes to modelling these variants, analysts are faced with the dilemma of whether to model each variant separately or to model multiple or all variants as a single model. The former option leads to a proliferation of models that share common parts, leading to redundancy and possible inconsistency. The latter approach leads to less but more complex models, thus hindering on their comprehensibility. This paper presents a decomposition driven method to capture a family of process variants in a consolidated manner taking into account the above trade-off. We applied our method on a case study in the banking sector. A reduction of 50% of duplication was achieved in this case study.