An Analysis Method about Change Region of Business Process Model Based On Action Pattern

About the abnormal behavior of business process model, it is the core of work of business process management to determinate the change region which causes abnormal situation. The existing methods of researching change region are based on comparison with source model (or reference model), while it’s difficult to obtain source model actually, so these methods are lack of practical operability. In this paper, we construct object sub-model of business process model with labels based on the analysis of behavioral profile of Petri net. A method is proposed to determine change region and the smallest change region based on the concept of action pattern. We evaluate the novel method using a business process model in e-commerce.