FINDING REUSABLE BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS BASED ON STRUCTURAL MATCHING

Han G. Woo

2009

Abstract

Successfully integrating business processes with information systems has been a critical issue in many organizations. Such integrations should take place throughout the various stages of systems development to manage correct, traceable business process requirements. To support business process management (BPM) activities, many modeling formalisms and tools were proposed. Yet reuse of business process knowledge has been understudied although reuse practice is common, often relying on human recollection and reference models. This research proposes a tool support that assists reuse of business process models such as BPMN, EPC, and UML Activity Diagrams. In the suggested approach, the semantics of these formalisms are preserved in the conceptual graph format along with their instantiations and interrelationships. A structural data mining tool is then used to find reusable process models based on similarities in sequences of events and processes. This study can be applied to many reuse-related situations, namely retrieval of reusable process models given a problem, discovery of sequence patterns among process models, and suggesting the instances of (anti-) patterns for learning purpose.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

G. Woo H. (2009). FINDING REUSABLE BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS BASED ON STRUCTURAL MATCHING . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 249-255. DOI: 10.5220/0002012002490255

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Han G. Woo},
title={FINDING REUSABLE BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS BASED ON STRUCTURAL MATCHING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={249-255},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002012002490255},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - FINDING REUSABLE BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS BASED ON STRUCTURAL MATCHING
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - G. Woo H.
PY - 2009
SP - 249
EP - 255
DO - 10.5220/0002012002490255