Abstract: With the continuous development of business process management technology,different users in large enterprises may modify the same business process,so business process variants often change with the change of business requirements.To further manage the business process family,a change propagation mechanism that could propagate the change operations imposed on the process variant to the configurable process model was needed,which was focused on the method to effective complete the change propagation and co-evolution of the process variant and the configurable model.The mapping relationship between process variants and configurable models should be standardized,a series of change operations should be further defined to achieve synchronous mapping of changes on variants to configurable models,and a clean operation was then applied to remove the illegal parts of the propagated model.Through the experiments on the SAP EPC reference business process data set,the feasibility and universality of the proposed process change propagation method were proved.

Key words: configurable process model, process variants, flow chart merging, change propagation

摘要： 鉴于大型企业中不同使用者修改同一业务流程时,业务流程变体将随业务需求的更改发生变化,为了进一步管理业务流程家族,需要一种可以将施加于流程变体上的变更操作传播到可配置流程模型上的变更传播机制,着重研究了有效完成流程变体与可配置模型变更传播和协同进化的方法。该方法将流程变体与可配置模型的映射关系规范化,进一步定义了一系列变更操作,将在变体上的修改同步映射到可配置模型中,然后用清洁操作清除传播后模型的不合法部分。通过SAP EPC参考业务流程数据集上的实验证明了所提流程变更传播方法的可行性和普适性。

关键词: 可配置流程模型, 流程变体, 流程合并, 变更传播