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Searching Business Process Repositories Using Operational Similarity

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Effective retrieval of relevant know-how segments from business process repositories can save precious employee time and support non-expert users in locating and reusing process data. We present a methodology for searching repositories and retrieving relevant process segments, using business logic that is extracted from real-life process models. The analysis of a process repository enables the construction of three taxonomies with which it is possible to process the search intention in operational terms. We tested the method on the Oracle ERP Business Process Model (OBM), showing the approach to be effective in enabling the search of business process repositories.

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  1. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Maya Lincoln & Avigdor Gal

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  2. DEBII, Curtin University of Technology, Technology Park, De Laeter Way, 6102, Bentley, WA, Australia

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  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

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  4. Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.

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  5. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

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  6. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  7. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

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Lincoln, M., Gal, A. (2011). Searching Business Process Repositories Using Operational Similarity. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011. OTM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25109-2_2

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