On Dealing with Structural Conflicts between Process Type and Instance Changes

@incollection{citeulike:1834804, abstract = {Adaptive process management systems must be able to support changes of single process instances as well as modifications at the process type level and their propagation to a collection of related process instances. So far, these two kinds of dynamic process changes have been mainly considered in an isolated manner. However, especially for long-running processes, it must be possible to handle the interplay between process type and instance changes as well, but without running into trouble at runtime. This paper presents an extended criterion for correctly propagating process type changes to both, instances which are still running according to their original schema and instances which have been individually modified. In this context, we discuss and categorize structural conflicts potentially occuring between concurrent process changes. We show that our considerations are applicable to different process meta models and present tests for quickly detecting such structural conflicts.}, author = {Rinderle, Stefanie and Reichert, Manfred and Dadam, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {1834804}, journal = {Business Process Management}, keywords = {and, at, based, between, changes, conflicts, detect, instance, level, potential, tests, the, type, wsm-nets}, pages = {274--289}, posted-at = {2008-03-12 19:59:12}, priority = {0}, title = {On Dealing with Structural Conflicts between Process Type and Instance Changes}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/rcjegpueuuk4b8rt }, year = {2004} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1834804 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1834804 N2 - Adaptive process management systems must be able to support changes of single process instances as well as modifications at the process type level and their propagation to a collection of related process instances. So far, these two kinds of dynamic process changes have been mainly considered in an isolated manner. However, especially for long-running processes, it must be possible to handle the interplay between process type and instance changes as well, but without running into trouble at runtime. This paper presents an extended criterion for correctly propagating process type changes to both, instances which are still running according to their original schema and instances which have been individually modified. In this context, we discuss and categorize structural conflicts potentially occuring between concurrent process changes. We show that our considerations are applicable to different process meta models and present tests for quickly detecting such structural conflicts. JF - Business Process Management EP - 289 TI - On Dealing with Structural Conflicts between Process Type and Instance Changes SP - 274 KW - and KW - at KW - based KW - between KW - changes KW - conflicts KW - detect KW - instance KW - level KW - potential KW - tests KW - the KW - type KW - wsm-nets AU - Rinderle, Stefanie AU - Reichert, Manfred AU - Dadam, Peter PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/rcjegpueuuk4b8rt ER -