TY - GEN
T1 - Matching business process models using positional passage-based language models
AU - Weidlich, Matthias
AU - Sheetrit, Eitam
AU - Branco, Moisés C.
AU - Gal, Avigdor
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - Business operations are often documented by business process models. Use cases such as system validation and process harmonization require the identification of correspondences between activities, which is supported by matching techniques that cope with textual heterogeneity and differences in model granularity. In this paper, we present a matching technique that is tailored towards models featuring textual descriptions of activities. We exploit these descriptions using ideas from language modelling. Experiments with real-world process models reveal that our technique increases recall by up to factor five, largely without compromising precision, compared to existing approaches.
AB - Business operations are often documented by business process models. Use cases such as system validation and process harmonization require the identification of correspondences between activities, which is supported by matching techniques that cope with textual heterogeneity and differences in model granularity. In this paper, we present a matching technique that is tailored towards models featuring textual descriptions of activities. We exploit these descriptions using ideas from language modelling. Experiments with real-world process models reveal that our technique increases recall by up to factor five, largely without compromising precision, compared to existing approaches.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894119308&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894119308
SN - 9783642419232
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 130
EP - 137
BT - Conceptual Modeling - 32th International Conference, ER 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2013
Y2 - 11 November 2013 through 13 November 2013
ER -