An approach to measure similarity of business process models

Abstract

At higher levels of BPM (Business Process Management) maturity, organizations tend to accumulate considerable amounts of business process models [1]. Thus, business process model repositories may contain hundreds or even thousands models, represented using various modeling notations [2]. Since business process modeling technique is used by organizations to describe knowledge about their activities, the problem of store, share, and reuse of organizational knowledge, represented using business process models, becomes relevant. In this paper a similarity measure, used to retrieve business process models from a repository in order to their further reuse in a business process continuous improvement cycle according to BPM concept, is proposed. The problem of similar business process models retrieving has been earlier considered in studies [1, 3, 4], which propose several measures, based on label similarity, structural similarity, behavioral similarity etc.