Abstract
Competition in which enterprises and organizations are involved nowadays imposes them to often make evolve their business processes in order to meet, as quickly as possible while keeping effectiveness, new business or production requirements. This paper proposes to adopt a version-based approach to support these dynamic evolutions of business processes (BP). Adopting this approach permits to keep chronological BP changes since several instances of a same business process can own different schemas, each one representing a possible schema for the considered business process. Consequently, this approach is very suitable to deal with long-term business process evolution since it does not necessarily impose the adaptation and migration of running BP instances according to a new business process schema. The paper contribution is first a meta-model for designing versions of business processes considering the three dimensions of BP which are the informational, organizational and process dimensions. The paper also introduces a taxonomy of operations for business process version management.
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