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On the use of domain knowledge for process model repair
Process models are important for supporting organizations in documenting, understanding and monitoring their business. When
these process models become outdated, they need to be revised to accurately describe the new status quo of the processes
in the organization. Process model repair techniques help at automatically revising the existing model from behavior traced
in event logs. So far, such techniques have focused on identifying which parts of the model to change and how to change
them, but they do not use knowledge from practitioners to inform the revision. As a consequence, fragments of the model
may change in a way that defies existing regulations or represents outdated information that was wrongly considered from the
event log. This paper uses concepts from theory revision to provide formal foundations for process model repair that exploits
domain knowledge. Specifically, it conceptualizes (1) what are unchangeable fragments in the model and (2) the role that
various traces in the event log should play when it comes to model repair. A scenario of use is presented that demonstrates
the benefits of this conceptualization. The current state of existing process model repair techniques is compared against the
proposed concepts. The results show that only two existing techniques partially consider the concepts presented in this paper
for model repair.Peer Reviewe