Transformations and decompositions of nets
Advances in Petri nets 1986, part I on Petri nets: central models and their properties
An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Generalized vector spaces model in information retrieval
SIGIR '85 Proceedings of the 8th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
Analyzing process models using graph reduction techniques
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
A vector space model for automatic indexing
Communications of the ACM
Clustering Algorithms
Sap R/3 Process Oriented Implementation
Sap R/3 Process Oriented Implementation
Modern Information Retrieval
The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling
The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling
Semantic Analysis of Business Process Executions
EDBT '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
Life-Cycle Inheritance: A Petri-Net-Based Approach
ICATPN '97 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
Formalization of the Whole-Part Relationship in the Unified Modeling Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Process Management
ICEBE '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
A configurable reference modelling language
Information Systems
Detection and prediction of errors in EPCs of the SAP reference model
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Constructing customized process views
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Modularity in Process Models: Review and Effects
BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
The Refined Process Structure Tree
BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
Business Process Modeling: Current Issues and Future Challenges
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Graph Matching Algorithms for Business Process Model Similarity Search
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
The Triconnected Abstraction of Process Models
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
Modal aspects of object types and part-whole relations and the de re/de dicto distinction
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
View-based process visualization
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
Fuzzy mining: adaptive process simplification based on multi-perspective metrics
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
The ICoP Framework: identification of correspondences between process models
CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Similarity of business process models: Metrics and evaluation
Information Systems
Meronymy-based aggregation of activities in business process models
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Granularity in conceptual modelling: application to metamodels
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Efficient and accurate retrieval of business process models through indexing
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Behavioral similarity: a proper metric
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
Clone detection in repositories of business process models
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
Business process model abstraction: a definition, catalog, and survey
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Computer Science Review
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Organizations actively managing their business processes face a rapid growth of the number of process models that they maintain. Business process model abstraction has proven to be an effective means to generate readable, high-level views on business process models by showing coarse-grained activities and leaving out irrelevant details. In this way, abstraction facilitates a more efficient management of process models, as a single model can provide for many relevant views. Yet, it is an open question how to perform abstraction in the same skillful way as experienced modelers combine activities into more abstract tasks. This paper presents an approach that uses semantic information of a process model to decide on which activities belong together, which extends beyond existing approaches that merely exploit model structural characteristics. The contribution of this paper is twofold: we propose a novel activity aggregation method and suggest how to discover the activity aggregation habits of human modelers. In an experimental validation, we use an industrial process model repository to compare the developed activity aggregation method with actual modeling decisions, and observe a strong correlation between the two. The presented work is expected to contribute to the development of modeling support for the effective process model abstraction.