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A Systematic Approach for Maintainable Business Process Models

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The BPM lifecycle brings incremental improvement to business process models. In this paper, we propose a systematic approach to promote the maintainability of business process models, which stimulates the ease of their modifications and reduces the difficulties of maintenance. The proposed approach is based on a new extension of the BPM lifecycle. In this regard, we considered a set of the maintainability metrics for business processes models. Particularly, these metrics are classified into two main categories: static maintainability metrics and dynamic maintainability metrics. We evaluate the static maintainability metrics in the modeling phase and the dynamic maintainability metrics in the execution phase in the BPM lifecycle. After both assessments, a set of recommendations is given to allow the designer to improve the maintainability of the considered models and facilitate maintenance tasks in the future. These phases are illustrated and validated through a case study from the health care sector.

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Ayech, H.B.H., Elhadjamor, E.A., Ghannouchi, S.A. (2021). A Systematic Approach for Maintainable Business Process Models. In: Qiu, H., Zhang, C., Fei, Z., Qiu, M., Kung, SY. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12817. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82153-1_43

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