Development And Usage Of A Process Model Corpus
Walter J uuml rgen, Thaler Tom, Ardalani Peyman, Fettke Peter, Peter Loos · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2014
Process modeling plays an increasingly important role in organizational and software design. However, there is a lack of concrete examples of process models. An open and freely available corpus covering process models from different domains and application areas would offer a great potential for research and development. Typical applications of a model corpus are: (1) Creating a consistent and coherent understanding of business application systems in different domains and industries, (2) reusing the process models in other contexts, (3) creating a homogeneous data basis for different application and analysis scenarios. Against that background, this paper aims at developing a process model corpus, which may serve as a standardized data basis for the mentioned application scenarios. In order to realize that objective, the authors propose a procedure model serving as the basis for the process model corpus. This corpus contains reference models, models from practice and models from controlled environments and, in total, comprises 16 model collections with 2,290 process models.