Business process model retrieval based on graph indexing method

Abstract

Nowadays, business process reuse is very important and necessary inside large organizations that continually increase their process collections. Therefore, an efficient system to manage and search for concrete and relevant processes is necessary. Here we overcome to this problem proposing business process model retrieval based on a Graph Indexing Method. It takes into account a measure similarity between two graphs and provides a ranking of business process retrieved. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.