Identifying Business Process Activity Mappings by Optimizing Behavioral Similarity

Becker Jörg, Breuker Dominic, Delfmann Patrick, Dietrich Hanns-Alexander, Steinhorst Matthias


Zusammenfassung
This paper describes an approach designed to create a mapping between corresponding activities from two business processes that is geared towards handling noisy similarity values for the labels describing these activities. This is achieved by formulating an optimization problem – maximize the behavioral similarity of the processes as a whole – whose target value depends on the mapping. Thereby, the mapping is created not only with respect to label similarities but also with respect to the overall control flow structure, which avoids some mistakes resulting from erroneous label similarities. A preliminary evaluation demonstrates the improvement.

Schlüsselwörter
Business Process Model Analysis; Behavioral Similarity; Bisimulation



Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel in Sammelband (Konferenz)

Begutachtet
Ja

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2012

Konferenz
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2012

Konferenzort
Seattle, Washington, USA

Buchtitel
AMCIS 2012 Proceedings

Herausgeber
Association for Information Systems

Seiten
Paper 21

Sprache
Englisch

ISBN
978-0-615-66346-3

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