TY - GEN
T1 - Exploiting semantic activity labels to facilitate consistent specialization of abstract process activities
AU - Bögl, Andreas
AU - Karlinger, Michael
AU - Schütz, Christoph
AU - Schrefl, Michael
AU - Pomberger, Gustav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Designing business processes from scratch is an intricate and challenging task for process modellers. For this reason, the reuse of process patterns has become an integral part of process modelling in order to deal with recurring design issues in a given domain when modelling new business processes and variants thereof. The specialization of abstract process activities remains a key issue in process pattern reuse. Depending on the intended purpose of process pattern reuse, the specialization of abstract process activities typically ranges from the substitution of abstract process activities with sub-processes to the substitution of activity labels with specialized labels. The specialization of abstract process activitiesthrough label specialization has been hardly investigated so far in the business process community. The approach presented in this paper achieves consistent specialization of abstract process activities by ensuring consistent specialization of activity labels through exploitation of semantic activity labels as introduced in previous work. Semantic activity labels encode the linguistic meaning of process activities and thereby facilitate the establishment of consistency criteria based on the implicit semantics captured by activity labels.
AB - Designing business processes from scratch is an intricate and challenging task for process modellers. For this reason, the reuse of process patterns has become an integral part of process modelling in order to deal with recurring design issues in a given domain when modelling new business processes and variants thereof. The specialization of abstract process activities remains a key issue in process pattern reuse. Depending on the intended purpose of process pattern reuse, the specialization of abstract process activities typically ranges from the substitution of abstract process activities with sub-processes to the substitution of activity labels with specialized labels. The specialization of abstract process activitiesthrough label specialization has been hardly investigated so far in the business process community. The approach presented in this paper achieves consistent specialization of abstract process activities by ensuring consistent specialization of activity labels through exploitation of semantic activity labels as introduced in previous work. Semantic activity labels encode the linguistic meaning of process activities and thereby facilitate the establishment of consistency criteria based on the implicit semantics captured by activity labels.
KW - Activity label specialization
KW - Consistent reuse of process patterns
KW - Semantic activity labels
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-46078-8_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-46078-8_39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922032306
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 475
EP - 485
BT - SOFSEM 2015
A2 - Italiano, Giuseppe F.
A2 - Margaria-Steffen, Tiziana
A2 - Pokorný, Jaroslav
A2 - Quisquater, Jean-Jacques
A2 - Wattenhofer, Roger
PB - Springer
T2 - 41st International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2015
Y2 - 24 January 2015 through 29 January 2015
ER -