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Efficient business process consolidation: combining topic features with structure matching

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Accurate and effective business process consolidation is an efficient means of overcoming the dynamics and uncertainty in business process modeling. This article presents an approach to automating business process consolidation by applying process topic clustering based on business process libraries, using a graph mining algorithm to extract process patterns, identifying frequent subgraphs under the same process topic, filling the pertinent subgraph information into a table of frequent process subgraphs, and finally merging these frequent subgraphs to obtain merged business processes using a process merging algorithm. Tests on 604 models from the SAP reference model were performed, in which we used the compression ratio to judge the capability of our merging methods; the compression ratios of integrated processes in the same topic cluster were found to be much lower than those of processes related to different topics, and our method was found to achieve compression ratios similar to those reported in previous work.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61573157, 61562038 and 61562703, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province under Grant No. 20142BAB217028, the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province of China under Grant No. 2015B010129015.

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  1. Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, 341000, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China

    Ying Huang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

    Ying Huang

  3. College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Li

  4. School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, 341000, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Li

  5. College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

    Zhengping Liang

  6. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

    Yu Xue

  7. School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Xiuni Wang

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Huang, Y., Li, W., Liang, Z. et al. Efficient business process consolidation: combining topic features with structure matching. Soft Comput 22, 645–657 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-016-2364-y

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