Title: Towards Object Life Cycle-Based Variant Generation of Business Process Models,
Abstract: Variability management of process models is a major challenge for
Process-Aware Information Systems. Process model variants can be attributed to
any of the following reasons: new technologies, governmental rules,
organizational context or adoption of new standards. Current approaches to
manage variants of process models address issues such as reducing the huge
effort of modeling from scratch, preventing redundancy, and controlling
inconsistency in process models. Although the effort to manage process model
variants has been exerted, there are still limitations. Furthermore, existing
approaches do not focus on variants that come from change in organizational
perspective of process models. Organizational-driven variant management is an
important area that still needs more study that we focus on in this paper.
Object Life Cycle (OLC) is an important aspect that may change from an
organization to another. This paper introduces an approach inspired by real
life scenario to generate consistent process model variants that come from
adaptations in the OLC.