Abstract
This paper presents an idea and prototype of the semantic-based autocompletion mechanism supporting development of business process models. Currently available process modelling tools support business analysts by suggesting elements that may be incorporated in the process, validating modelled processes, providing additional descriptions easing automation, etc. However, these solutions based mainly on syntactic data, disregard proper identification and usage of previously modelled process fragments. The mechanism described in this paper analyses context and annotations of process tasks (also on the semantic level) in order to deliver a list of suggestions for possible successor tasks: process fragments that may complete the model being developed.
We argue that the proposed autocompletion mechanism has an ability to improve the efficiency of the modelling process by among others reducing modelling errors and shortening the duration of the modelling process.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Van Der Aalst, W.M.P., Hofstede, A.H.M.T., Weske, M.: Business Process Management: A Survey. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Weske, M. (eds.) BPM 2003. LNCS, vol. 2678, pp. 1–12. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Muehlen, M.Z., Rosemann, M.: Multi-paradigm process management. Development (Bpmds), 169–175 (2004)
Hepp, M., Leymann, F., Bussler, C., Domingue, J., Wahler, A., Fensel, D.: Semantic business process management: a vision towards using semantic web services for business process management. In: IEEE International Conference on eBusiness Engineering, ICEBE 2005, vol. 5(1), pp. 535–540 (2005)
Koschmider, A.: Ähnlichkeitsbasierte Modellierungsunterstützung für Geschäftsprozesse. Universitätsverl., Karlsruhe (2007)
Vanhatalo, J., Völzer, H., Leymann, F.: Faster and More Focused Control-Flow Analysis for Business Process Models Through SESE Decomposition. In: Krämer, B.J., Lin, K.-J., Narasimhan, P. (eds.) ICSOC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4749, pp. 43–55. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Schaffner, J., Meyer, H., Weske, M.: A Formal Model for Mixed Initiative Service Composition. In: IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, pp. 443–450. IEEE Computer Society (2007)
Born, M., Brelage, C., Markovic, I., Pfeiffer, D., Weber, I.: Auto-completion for Executable Business Process Models. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds.) BPM 2009. LNBIP, vol. 17, pp. 510–515. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Born, M., Markovic, I., Filipowska, A., Starzecka, M., Kaczmarek, M., Walczak, A.: Business Functions Ontology and its Application in Semantic Business Process Modelling, pp. 136–145 (2008)
Dimitrov, M., Simov, A., Stein, S., Konstantinov, M.: A BPMO Based Semantic Business Process Modelling Environment. In: Hepp, M., Hinkelmann, K., Karagiannis, D., Klein, R., Stojanovic, N. (eds.) SBPM. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 251, CEUR-WS.org (2007)
Cabral, L., Norton, B., Domingue, J.: The Business Process Modelling Ontology. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management, SBPM 2009, pp. 9–16. ACM, New York (2009)
Markovic, I., Pereira, A.C.: Towards a formal framework for reuse in business process modeling. In: ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Benatallah, B., Paik, H.-Y. (eds.) BPM Workshops 2007. LNCS, vol. 4928, pp. 484–495. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Wieloch, K., Filipowska, A., Kaczmarek, M. (2011). Autocompletion for Business Process Modelling. In: Abramowicz, W., Maciaszek, L., Węcel, K. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25370-6_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25370-6_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-25369-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-25370-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)