2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Difference-Preserving Process Merge
Authors : Kristof Böhmer, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Published in: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Providing merging techniques for business processes fosters the management and maintenance of (large) process model repositories. Contrary to existing approaches that focus on preserving behavior of all participating process models, this paper presents a merging technique that aims at preserving the difference between the participating process models by exploiting the existence of a common parent process, e.g., a reference or standard process model.