Identifying Business Process Activity Mappings by Optimizing Behavioral Similarity
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Business Process Model Analysis; Behavioral Similarity; Bisimulation
Cite as
Becker, J., Breuker, D., Delfmann, P., Dietrich, H.-A., & Steinhorst, M. (2012). Identifying Business Process Activity Mappings by Optimizing Behavioral Similarity. In Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA, Paper 21.Details
Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)
Peer reviewed
Yes
Publication status
Published
Year
2012
Conference
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2012
Venue
Seattle, Washington, USA
Book title
AMCIS 2012 Proceedings
Editor
Association for Information Systems
Pages range
Paper 21
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-615-66346-3
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