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Business process models may contain certain sets of related elements of interest to modellers. External constraints on business process models may, for example, require or prohibit the presence of a specific set of related model elements or a temporal relationship between different sets. To automatically evaluate such constraints, the existence of these sets must be verified beforehand. In this paper, we present a modelling language for structural patterns using a graphical notation. These patterns are used to describe related model elements of interest. Furthermore, we introduce a technique to match pattern models with business process models using a rule-based system.
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Müller, J. (2009). A Rule-Based Approach to Match Structural Patterns with Business Process Models. In: Governatori, G., Hall, J., Paschke, A. (eds) Rule Interchange and Applications. RuleML 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5858. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04985-9_20
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