The Analysis Method about Change Domain of Business Process Model Based on the Behavior Profile of Petri Net

For adapting flexibly the rapidly changing of business needs, the analysis of the business process change domain (or change nodes) to become one of the core of business process management. Existing research methods are based in the static analysis that searching the change region by given nodes, which had big limitations to the uncertain task nodes. In order to determine the changes domain of business process models for the uncertain task node, a dynamic analysis method about the change domain of business process is proposed based on the behavior profile of the Petri net in the paper. The method uses the behavior profile to analyze the behavior order relationships of business process model, look for the change domain and suspicious node set in the process model, and to further determine the change node set in the change domain. Finally, for analyzing the effectiveness of the method, a specific change domain analyzing instance of process model is given out. Theory and case study shows that the proposed analysis methods has big advantage to the change domain analyzing of the process model under existing uncertain task node circumstance.