User-Friendly Semantic Annotation in Business Process Modeling

Born, Matthias; Dörr, Florian; Weber, Ingo

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77010-7_25

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“…Some of these works assume that an ontology exists for matching the labels [59,60,61]. Also techniques for semantic annotation have been proposed [62,63,64,65]. An intrinsic problem of matching business process models is the complexity of the search space once 1:n matches are investigated [66,67,68].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models

Leopold

Smirnov

Mendling

2012

Information Systems

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Large corporations increasingly utilize business process models for documenting and redesigning their operations. The extent of such modeling initiatives with several hundred models and dozens of often hardly trained modelers calls for automated quality assurance. While formal properties of control flow can easily be checked by existing tools, there is a notable gap for checking the quality of the textual content of models, in particular, its activity labels. In this paper, we address the problem of activity label quality in business process models. We designed a technique for the recognition of labeling styles, and the automatic refactoring of labels with quality issues. More specifically, we developed a parsing algorithm that is able to deal with the shortness of activity labels, which integrates natural language tools like WordNet and the Stanford Parser. Using three business process model collections from practice with differing labeling style distributions, we demonstrate the applicability of our technique. In comparison to a straightforward application of standard natural language tools, our technique provides much more stable results. As an outcome, the technique shifts the boundary of process model quality issues that can be checked automatically from syntactic to semantic aspects.

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On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models

Leopold

Smirnov

Mendling

2012

Information Systems

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“…They use the BPAL (Business Process Abstract Language) to achieve a formal representation of the business semantics in a Business Process Knowledge Base. Born et al [22] consider in their approach the semantic enrichment of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) models. Lin et al [23] propose a Process Semantic Annotation Model, which based on a metamodel annotation links content and goal annotation to the represented process.…”

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Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

Haoum

Hahn

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Modeling the enterprise from different views, at different levels of abstraction, and in different modeling languages yields a variety of models. Oftentimes the models referring to the same subject exist independently of each other and their semantic relations are hard to discover or to analyze. This fact hinders the effective exploitation of enterprise models for the purpose of integration and interoperability. The method proposed in this paper is based on semantic annotations and aims for the externalization and machine readability of the model contained information. This assures the accessibility for further automatic processing and facilitates the discovery and analysis of inter-model relations.Keywords: enterprise modeling, semantic annotation, model reconciliation, inter-model relations. IntroductionIn today's economy enterprises operate in a fast changing environment and their competitiveness heavily depends on their ability to quickly respond to these changes in an adequate manner. In this context, decision makers use enterprise models as a means to master this complexity. Depending on the focus in a particular case, models allow to take a certain view and abstraction on the enterprise and concentrate on the goals, processes, structures, competencies, etc. Further, particular models can be broken down into more detailed sub-models. Overall, this yields a "collection of more or less interrelated, special-purpose models" [1]. In contrast to modeling activities known from the field of operations research, business process (re-)engineering, organizational design etc., enterprise modeling accounts for the "need to focus on enterprises as a whole, or at least on a larger set of interacting components, within organization -taking a more 'total systems' approach" [2]. According to [3] the main motivations for enterprise modeling are:• The possibility to analyze the enterprise, in order to gain a better understanding and to enable the management of system complexity.• Explicit documentation of enterprise knowledge (know-what, know-how, and know-why).

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“…This mapping must be done manually by the analyst, and it is equivalent to annotating the model shapes with classes from the ontology. This can be achieved in a similar way to other approaches that involve semantic annotation of business processes [7,8,9]. Still, creating such mapping is made difficult by the fact that the shapes in a process model use a domain-specific vocabulary and are often labeled in different ways.…”

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Ontology-Based Discovery of Workflow Activity Patterns

Ferreira

P.Alves

Thom

2012

Business Process Management Workshops

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Abstract. Workflow activity patterns represent a set of recurrent behaviors that can be found in a wide range of business processes. In this paper we address the problem of determining the presence of these patterns in process models. This is usually done manually by the analyst, and it requires interpreting the process in terms of the semantics of those patterns. We describe an ontology-based approach to perform this discovery in an automated way. The approach makes use of an ontology, and a mapping between the elements in the given process and the classes in the ontology. A reasoner is then used to discover the patterns, and a SPARQL query is used to retrieve them. The approach is illustrated for a business process in a travel booking scenario.

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User-Friendly Semantic Annotation in Business Process Modeling

Cited by 69 publications

References 6 publications

On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models

On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models

Using Metamodels and Ontologies for Enterprise Model Reconciliation

Ontology-Based Discovery of Workflow Activity Patterns

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