Business Process Models

The book "Business Process Models" by Christian Gerth offers a comprehensive analysis of the role of business process models in the development of enterprise software. Given the increasing need to better align the requirements of businesses and IT, the importance of process models is becoming more evident. In team environments where multiple stakeholders are involved, various versions of these models emerge, which need to be merged to obtain an integrated process model. This monograph presents a generally applicable framework for change management of process models, providing user-friendly comparison and merging features. It supports common modeling languages such as BPMN, BPEL, and UML activity diagrams, and represents differences between process models in the form of intuitive, high-level change operations. With a sophisticated analysis of dependencies and a semantically aware calculation of conflicts between the differences, the framework offers a comprehensive and practically usable solution for change management of process models in model-driven development of enterprise software.