Authors:
Mariem Kchaou
;
Wiem Khlif
and
Faiez Gargouri
Affiliation:
Mir@cl Laboratory, University of Sfax, Sfax and Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Refactoring BPMN Models, Structural Measures, Performances Measures, Semantic and Structural Aspects, Temporal Aspect, Transformation Rules.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Models
;
Business Performance
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Architecture
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Refactoring a business process model (BPM) may improve its usability (understandability, modifiability) performance, and/or ease its maintainability. So-far proposed refactoring approaches have used either refactoring which focuses on structural aspects and/or semantic information. Nevertheless, these aspects provide a partial view of the model. As we show in this paper, combining the semantic and structural aspects with the temporal aspect decreases further the complexity of a business process modelled in BPMN and enhances its performance. Our method uses a set of transformation rules. We illustrate their efficiency through well-established performance measures (temporal and cost) and structural measures (complexity).