Lessons learned from a software process modeling system
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
View integration of behavior in object-oriented databases
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Business Process Engineering: Reference Models for Industrial Enterprises
Business Process Engineering: Reference Models for Industrial Enterprises
Sap R/3 Process Oriented Implementation
Sap R/3 Process Oriented Implementation
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Guidelines of Business Process Modeling
Business Process Management, Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies
Synthesis and Decomposition of Processes in Organizations
Information Systems Research
Workflow View Driven Cross-Organizational Interoperability in a Web Service Environment
Information Technology and Management
Ontology-based Semantic Annotation for Semantic Interoperability of Process Models
CIMCA '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Vol-1 (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06) - Volume 01
Process models representing knowledge for action: a revised quality framework
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: Action in language, organisations and information systems
YAWL: yet another workflow language
Information Systems
Cognitive fit in requirements modeling: a study of object and process methodologies
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Strategies for business process reengineering: evidence from field studies
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Toward a theory of business process change management
Managing information about processes
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Toward a theory of business process change management
Learning to specify information requirements: the relationship between application and methodology
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Ontology Matching
Measuring similarity between semantic business process models
APCCM '07 Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific conference on Comceptual modelling - Volume 67
Journal of Management Information Systems
Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures
Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures
Process Model Abstraction: A Slider Approach
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
Metrics for Process Models: Empirical Foundations of Verification, Error Prediction, and Guidelines for Correctness
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The Triconnected Abstraction of Process Models
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG)
Information and Software Technology
Semantically-Aided Business Process Modeling
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Activity labeling in process modeling: Empirical insights and recommendations
Information Systems
User-friendly semantic annotation in business process modeling
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Web information systems engineering
View-based process visualization
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
Machine-assisted design of business process models using descriptor space analysis
BPM'10 Proceedings of the 8th 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
Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Meronymy-based aggregation of activities in business process models
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
APROMORE: An advanced process model repository
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Syntax highlighting in business process models
Decision Support Systems
A semantic approach for business process model abstraction
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
On the automatic labeling of process models
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Clone detection in repositories of business process models
BPM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Business process management
Productivity and Performance Effects of Business Process Reengineering: A Firm-Level Analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
Business process model abstraction: a definition, catalog, and survey
Distributed and Parallel Databases
On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models
Information Systems
Approximate clone detection in repositories of business process models
BPM'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business Process Management
Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Fast detection of exact clones in business process model repositories
Information Systems
Fundamentals of Business Process Management
Fundamentals of Business Process Management
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The increased adoption of business process management approaches, tools, and practices has led organizations to accumulate large collections of business process models. These collections can easily include from a hundred to a thousand models, especially in the context of multinational corporations or as a result of organizational mergers and acquisitions. A concrete problem is thus how to maintain these large repositories in such a way that their complexity does not hamper their practical usefulness as a means to describe and communicate business operations. This paper proposes a technique to automatically infer suitable names for business process models and fragments thereof. This technique is useful for model abstraction scenarios, as for instance when user-specific views of a repository are required, or as part of a refactoring initiative aimed to simplify the repository's complexity. The technique is grounded in an adaptation of the theory of meaning to the realm of business process models. We implemented the technique in a prototype tool and conducted an extensive evaluation using three process model collections from practice and a case study involving process modelers with different experience.