Towards Rich Change Management for Business Process Models

Business process models play an important role in the development of large IT systems, since they are easy to understand by all project stakeholders. High-level process models may be created by domain experts, which are stepwise refined in later development phases until they become executable. To establish such model-driven development (MDD) approaches in praxis, a comprehensive tool support of the complete model life cycle is necessary including model change management in particular. In this position paper, we give an overview of our framework for change management of business process models. This framework allows to merge process models in different modeling languages and considers the execution semantics of process models during comparison. Based on these results, we derive further research challenges with the aim to obtain a rich change management solution for business process models.