Managing business processes as an information resource
IBM Systems Journal
Workflow mining: a survey of issues and approaches
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A case-based reasoning framework for workflow model management
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Advances in business process management
Specification and validation of process constraints for flexible workflows
Information Systems
Case handling: a new paradigm for business process support
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach (Advances in Database Systems)
Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach (Advances in Database Systems)
Business process management: a survey
BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
On business process model transformations
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Process equivalence: comparing two process models based on observed behavior
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
On representing, purging, and utilizing change logs in process management systems
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Data–driven process control and exception handling in process management systems
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Supporting Flexible Processes through Recommendations Based on History
BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
Graph Matching Algorithms for Business Process Model Similarity Search
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
Aligning business process models
EDOC'09 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE international conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Similarity of business process models: Metrics and evaluation
Information Systems
Fast business process similarity search with feature-based similarity estimation
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Editorial: Mining business process variants: Challenges, scenarios, algorithms
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Identifying refactoring opportunities in process model repositories
Information and Software Technology
Behavioral similarity: a proper metric
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
A comparative survey of business process similarity measures
Computers in Industry
Comparison and retrieval of process models using related cluster pairs
Computers in Industry
Fast business process similarity search
Distributed and Parallel Databases
A Methodology for Improving Business Process Performance through Positive Deviance
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
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Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and business operations, workarounds in spite of process execution engines, dynamic change and exception handling, flexible and ad-hoc approaches, and collaborative and/or knowledge intensive work. It is imperative that effective support for managing process variance be extended to organizations mature in their BPM (Business Process Management) uptake so that they can ensure organization wide consistency, promote reuse and capitalize on their BPM investments. Process variants are complex objects that contain features of different dimensions, such as variant design or variant execution data. This paper provides a technique for effective utilization of the adaptations manifested in process variants. In particular, we will present a facility for discovery of preferred variants through effective search and retrieval based on the notion of process similarity, where multiple aspects of the process variants are compared according to specific query requirements. The major advantage of this approach is the ability to provide a quantitative measure for the similarity between process variants, which further facilitates various BPM activities such as process reuse, analysis and discovery.