Analyse und Vergleich von ausgewählten Ansätzen zur Wiederverwendung von Prozessmodellen

Business processes usually are confronted with steady adaptations triggered by an increasing flexibility, changes in customer needs or by a growing pressure of competition. Such adaptations on processes should be made time and cost effectively. Holistic researches address the reuse of existing process knowledge in order to learn from best or common practices. Applying different reuse strategies imply several problems such as how to make implicit process knowledge explicit, how to capture that knowledge in a common knowledge base and how to retrieve suitable process solutions and to configure them according to new process requirements. This work compares three selected reuse approaches that follow a pattern-based, a building block-based and a case-based reasoning approach. Evaluation criteria derived from literature are applied to a common process example. The evaluation results are used to determine strengths and weaknesses of the selected approaches and their prototypical implementations.