Abstract

ORDONEZ, Hugo; CORRALES, Juan Carlos  and  COBOS, Carlos. MultiSearchBP: Environment for Search and Clustering of Business Process Models. Polibits [online]. 2014, n.49, pp.29-38. ISSN 1870-9044.

This paper presents a Business Process Searching and Grouping Environment called MultiSearchBP. It is based on a three-level architecture comprising Presentation level, Business level (Structural Analysis, Indexing, Query, and Grouping) and Storage level. The search process is performed on a repository that contains 146 Business Process (BP) models. The indexing and query processes are similar to those of the vector space model used in information retrieval and the clustering process uses two clustering algorithms (Lingo and STC). MultiSearchBP uses a multimodal representation of BPs. It also presents an experimental evaluation process to consider the judgments of eight expert evaluators from a set of similarity scores obtained from previous manual comparisons made between the BP models stored in the repository. The measures used were graded precision and graded recall. The results show high accuracy.

Keywords : Business processes; information retrieval; multi-modal search; clustering.