User Assistance For Business Process Model Decomposition

Petri nets are a suitable language for modeling business processes with complex flow structures. Processes with a number of alternative, concurrent or sequential flow structures on the same process abstraction level may result in complex processes. Such complex and poorly unstructured processes are particularly difficult for users to understand. Process decomposition can significantly improve the comprehensibility and consistency of process models and enables faster reuse of process models. To maintain homogenous process decomposition demands a significant amount of modeling experience. In this paper, we will present our approach for (semi-)automatic detection of nonuniformly specified process element names on the same process decomposition level. Our detection system validates process element names regarding reasonable hierarchical specifications. The aim of our approach is to (semi-)automatically highlight nonuniformly specified process elements in order to improve process model consistency. The approach is based upon an OWL-based description of Petri nets.

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