DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY PATTERN CO-OCCURRENCES IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS

Jean Michel Lau, Cirano Iochpe, Lucinéia Heloisa Thom, Manfred Reichert

2009

Abstract

Research on workflow activity patterns recently emerged in order to increase the reuse of recurring business functions (e.g., notification, approval, and decision). One important aspect is to identify pattern co-occurrences and to utilize respective information for creating modeling recommendations regarding the most suited activity patterns to be combined with an already used one. Activity patterns as well as their co-occurrences can be identified through the analysis of process models rather than event logs. Related to this problem, this paper proposes a method for discovering and analyzing activity pattern co-occurrences in business process models. Our results are used for developing a BPM tool which fosters the modeling of business processes based on the reuse of activity patterns. Our tool includes an inference engine which considers the patterns co-occurrences to give design time recommendations for pattern usage.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lau J., Iochpe C., Thom L. and Reichert M. (2009). DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY PATTERN CO-OCCURRENCES IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 83-88. DOI: 10.5220/0001958800830088

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Jean Michel Lau and Cirano Iochpe and Lucinéia Heloisa Thom and Manfred Reichert},
title={DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY PATTERN CO-OCCURRENCES IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={83-88},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001958800830088},
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 - DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY PATTERN CO-OCCURRENCES IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Lau J.
AU - Iochpe C.
AU - Thom L.
AU - Reichert M.
PY - 2009
SP - 83
EP - 88
DO - 10.5220/0001958800830088