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Process Instance Management Facilities Based on the Meta Process Models

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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In the field of software process management, many studies have proposed a variety of process management technologies. However, most of the process management technologies have treated managerial analysis facilities for software process instances too lightly. It results in less attention from industry. To overcome the problem, we propose the process instance management facilities in the structural and behavioral aspects based on the meta process models. The meta process models consist of the two types of models: meta structural model and the meta behavioral model. Based on the meta process models, a process model is developed and two types of process instance models are generated using the process model: the structural instance model and the behavioral instance model. For the structural instance model, we adopt process slicing. On the other hands, we use several analysis techniques for the behavioral instance model. The proposed approach enables a project manager to analyze structural and behavioral properties of a process instance and allows a project manager make use of the formalism for the management facilities without knowledge for the formalism.

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  1. Division of SPI Consulting, SolutionLink Co., South Korea

    Seunghun Park & Sangyoon Min

  2. Department of Computer Science, College of Information Science & Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

    Doohwan Bae

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

    Beniamino Murgante

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

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Park, S., Min, S., Bae, D. (2011). Process Instance Management Facilities Based on the Meta Process Models. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21934-4_27

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