A SIMULATION-BASED DIFFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR BOTTOM-UP PROCESS RECONCILIATION

Xi Chen, Paul W. H. Chung

2007

Abstract

With the increasing dynamic and changing business environment, bottom-up approaches for business process collaboration is currently receiving a great deal of attention in the research community. Bottom-up approaches are seen to be more flexible then top-down approaches. However, none of the available techniques for process collaboration are suitable for process reconciliation, which is a common problem when different organisations have to work together. In order to address the issue in a bottom-up way, a simulation-based technique for detecting differences between any two given processes is proposed. It is based on the extended definitions of process compatibility for collaboration and is the core of the process reconciliation mechanism.

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Chen X. and W. H. Chung P. (2007). A SIMULATION-BASED DIFFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR BOTTOM-UP PROCESS RECONCILIATION . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 72-77. DOI: 10.5220/0002394600720077


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Xi Chen and Paul W. H. Chung},
title={A SIMULATION-BASED DIFFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR BOTTOM-UP PROCESS RECONCILIATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={72-77},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002394600720077},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - A SIMULATION-BASED DIFFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR BOTTOM-UP PROCESS RECONCILIATION
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Chen X.
AU - W. H. Chung P.
PY - 2007
SP - 72
EP - 77
DO - 10.5220/0002394600720077