How to detect semantic business process model variants?

Abstract

Precise modeling of business processes has paved the way to realize process aware information systems that include allocations of resources, communication services, or hardware devices to users. Changes in business strategies or new business opportunities may result in modifications of implemented functionalities of information systems and their underlying business process models. The result of these modifications are business process model variants. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for determining linguistic similarities between business process model variants in order to faciliate process redesign.