Process reuse is one of the important research areas that address efficiency issues in business process modeling. Similar to software reuse, business processes should be able to be componentized and specialized in order to enable flexible process expansion and customization. Current activity/control-flow centric workflow modeling approaches face difficulty in supporting highly flexible process reuse, limited by their procedural nature. In comparison, the emerging artifact-centric workflow modeling approach well fits into these reuse requirements. Beyond the classic class level reuse in existing object-oriented approaches, process reuse faces the challenge of handling synchronization dependencies among artifact lifecycles as parts of a business process. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework for business process specialization that comprises an artifact-centric business process model, a set of methods to design and construct a specialized business process model from a base model, and a set of behavioral consistency criteria to help check the consistency between the two process models.

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重用以工件为中心的业务流程模型：行为一致的专业化方法

流程重用是解决业务流程建模中效率问题的重要研究领域之一。与软件重用类似，业务流程应该能够组件化和专业化，以实现灵活的流程扩展和定制。当前以活动/控制流为中心的工作流建模方法在支持高度灵活的流程重用方面面临困难，受其程序性质的限制。相比之下，新兴的以工件为中心的工作流建模方法非常适合这些重用需求。除了现有面向对象方法中经典的类级重用之外，流程重用还面临着将工件生命周期之间的同步依赖性作为业务流程的一部分进行处理的挑战。在本文中，