Configuration vs. adaptation for business process variant maintenance: An empirical study
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Highlights：
• For process variant modeling approaches, we define modularization support and variant construction direction (configuration or adaptation) as two major control-flow related dimensions.
• We classify existing approaches along the two dimensions.
• We set up a task-based user study for representatively comparing vBPMN and C-YAWL w.r.t. their support of process variant maintainability for a simple and a complex model.
• For each response variable (success rate, user contentment and execution speed), vBPMN performs significantly better than C-YAWL. We argue that this is mainly due to vBPMN's advanced modularization support.
摘要
Highlights•For process variant modeling approaches, we define modularization support and variant construction direction (configuration or adaptation) as two major control-flow related dimensions.•We classify existing approaches along the two dimensions.•We set up a task-based user study for representatively comparing vBPMN and C-YAWL w.r.t. their support of process variant maintainability for a simple and a complex model.•For each response variable (success rate, user contentment and execution speed), vBPMN performs significantly better than C-YAWL. We argue that this is mainly due to vBPMN's advanced modularization support.
论文关键词：Process modeling,Process variants,Process configuration,Process adaptation,User experiment,Model maintainability
论文评审过程：Received 27 August 2012, Revised 11 April 2013, Accepted 3 June 2013, Available online 8 July 2013.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2013.06.002
