Measuring similarity between semantic business process models

  • Authors:
  • Marc Ehrig;Agnes Koschmider;Andreas Oberweis

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • APCCM '07 Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific conference on Comceptual modelling - Volume 67
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A business process may be modeled in different ways by different modelers even when utilizing the same modeling language. An appropriate method for solving ambiguity issues in process models caused by the use of synonyms, homonyms or different abstraction levels for process element names is the use of ontology-based descriptions of process models. So-called semantic business process models promise to support business process interoperability and interconnectivity. But, for (semi-) automatic process interoperability and interconnectivity two problems need to be solved. How can similar terms for process element names be automatically discovered and how can semantic business process composition be facilitated. In this paper we will present solutions for these problems based upon an OWL DL-based description of Petri nets.