Presentation at the 10th Int'l Conference on Service Oriented Computing;
Jens Kolb, Shanghai, China, November 15, 2012, 03:30 pm

The increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs) has resulted in large process model collections. To support users having different perspectives on these processes and related data, a PAIS should provide personalized views on process models. Existing PAISs, however, do not provide mechanisms for creating or even changing such process views.

Especially, changing process models is a frequent use case in PAISs due to evolving processes or unplanned situations. While process views have been suggested as abstractions for visualizing large process models, no work exists on how to change process models based on respective views.

This paper presents an approach for changing large process models through updates of corresponding process views, while ensuring up-to-dateness and consistency of all process views related to the changed process model.

Respective update operations can be applied to a process view and corresponding changes be correctly propagated to the underlying process model. Furthermore, all other views related to this process model are then migrated to the new version of the process model as well. Overall, our view framework enables domain experts to evolve large process models over time based on appropriate model abstractions.

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