Change management in business process modeling based on object oriented petri net
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Abstract
Business Process Modeling (BPM) is the first and most important step in business process management lifecycle. Graph based formalism and rule based formalism are the two most predominant formalisms on which process modeling languages are developed. BPM technology continues to face challenges in coping with dynamic business environments where requirements and goals are constantly changing at the execution time. Graph based formalisms incur problems to react to dynamic changes in Business Process (BP) at the runtime instances. In this research, an adaptive and flexible framework based on the integration between Object Oriented diagramming technique and Petri Net modeling language is proposed in order to support change management techniques for BPM and increase the representation capability for Object Oriented modeling for the dynamic changes in the runtime instances. The proposed framework is applied in a higher education environment to achieve flexible, updatable and dynamic BP. © 2009 WASET.ORG.
Keywords
Business Process Modeling, Change Management, Graph Based Modeling, Object Oriented Petri Net, Rule Based Modeling, Enterprise resource management, Graph theory, Linguistics, Petri nets, Query languages, Object oriented programming
Divisions
Software
Publication Title
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Volume
38