Towards an approach for estimating impact of changes on business processes

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2009

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

A business process needs to be constantly reviewed to accommodate new business requirements and regulations. To this end, it is important to manage the impact of this review on a process by determining which parts are affected and more critically estimating the overall cost of this review. In this paper we present an approach to manage the changes in a process. We model a process as a set of business rules that are structured using the ECAPE formalism standing for Event, Condition, Action, Post-condition, and post-Event This formalism allows translating a process into a graph of rules that is used for two types of analysis: business processes agility and cost of changes. This cost is based on our Rule Change Cost Model (R2CM). © 2009 IEEE.

ISBN

9780769537559

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

First Page

415

Last Page

422

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

Business processes modeling, Business rules, Change cost, Change impact, Graph of rules

Scopus ID

70449416202

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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