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Process Model Based Incremental Project Planning

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It is widely accepted that process models can significantly increase the likelihood of a project to finish successfully. A very basic aspect of actually using a process model is to derive a project plan thereof and keep it up to date. However, this is a tedious task – especially when each document might undergo numerous revisions. Thus, automation is needed. However, current approaches based on workflows or change management systems do not provide incremental update mechanisms: process engineers have to define them by themselves – especially when they develop an organization specific process model. On the other hand, incremental model transformations, known from the model driven development domain, are to low-level to be of practical use. In fact, proper high-level model transformation languages are yet subject to research. In this paper we present a process language which integrates both: process modeling languages and incremental model transformations.

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  1. Institute of Computer Sciences, Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str.4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Edward Fischer

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  1. Monash University, Clayton School of Information Technology, VIC 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. University of Basilicata, L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineeering, LaTrobe University, VIC 3086, Bundoora, Australia

    Eric Pardede

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Fischer, E. (2010). Process Model Based Incremental Project Planning. In: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010. ICCSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12165-4_23

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