Advanced Process Model Repositories
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چکیده
Both empirical and anecdotal evidence indicate that enterprises across the globe and in various industries, such as finance, healthcare and government, tend to collect hundreds if not even thousands of business process models over time [1-5]. It is quite common that such set of industry-strength business process models includes thousands of activities and further related objects such as data, applications, risks etc. These models are increasingly published over an Intranet to a large number of stakeholders with varying skills and responsibilities [6]. In that sense, it may not come as a surprise that many organizations find it difficult to keep track of such large amounts of complex process models – an issue that is referred to as “model (lifecycle) management” [3], “model maintenance” [5] or “modeling in the large”. The problem is amplified by overlapping content across models, poor version management, process models that are used simultaneously for different purposes, the use of different modeling notations such as EPCs, BPMN, etc.
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