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Business process model discovery represents a pillar technique that enables business process model reuse. In this paper we describe a method for business process model discovery, which uses semantically annotated business processes. We created an RDF vocabulary for business processes that captures functional, non functional and structural properties that is used in the annotations of basic activities. We developed a set of algorithms to automatically generate different representations of the same business process at different granularity levels. We defined a set of rules to extract the RDF meta data in the annotated business process models and to build an RDF knowledge base which then can be interrogated using SPARQL.
This work is founded by the Lion II project supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant number 08/CE/I1380.
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Vulcu, G., Derguech, W., Bhiri, S. (2011). Business Process Model Discovery Using Semantics. In: zur Muehlen, M., Su, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20511-8_31
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