{"title":"Change Management in Business Process Modeling Based on Object Oriented Petri Net","authors":"Bassam Atieh Rajabi, Sai Peck Lee","volume":26,"journal":"International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering","pagesStart":151,"pagesEnd":157,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/9169","abstract":"Business Process Modeling (BPM) is the first and\r\nmost important step in business process management lifecycle. Graph\r\nbased formalism and rule based formalism are the two most\r\npredominant formalisms on which process modeling languages are\r\ndeveloped. BPM technology continues to face challenges in coping\r\nwith dynamic business environments where requirements and goals\r\nare constantly changing at the execution time. Graph based\r\nformalisms incur problems to react to dynamic changes in Business\r\nProcess (BP) at the runtime instances. In this research, an adaptive\r\nand flexible framework based on the integration between Object\r\nOriented diagramming technique and Petri Net modeling language is\r\nproposed in order to support change management techniques for\r\nBPM and increase the representation capability for Object Oriented\r\nmodeling for the dynamic changes in the runtime instances. The\r\nproposed framework is applied in a higher education environment to\r\nachieve flexible, updatable and dynamic BP.","references":"[1] J. Cardoso, R. P. Bostrom, and A. Sheth, \"Workflow Management\r\nSystems and ERP Systems: Differences, Commonalities, and\r\nApplications,\" Journal of Information and Technology Management,\r\nKluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.\r\n[2] R. Lu, \"Constraint-Based Flexible Business Process Management,\" in\r\nSchool of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,\r\nUniversity of Queensland, 2008.\r\n[3] W. van der Aalst, A. ter Hofstede, and M. 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