Collaborative Business Process Solution Considering an Ontological Dimension of Process Models

Abstract

Considering the potential of collaborative business as a trend, we start from the assumption that collaborations between companies have a higher success rate if a good compatibility from process perspective is detected. The solution is based on the business processes used internally in all participating organizations to collaborations with common business objectives. For un-standardized organizations, we used process mining techniques to formalize processes and to attach them to business scenarios. The process models are reduced to graph format and graph comparison algorithms are used to compute a compatibility factor. Syntactic similarity is unfeasible for real business process comparison in an un-standardized environment. Semantic similarity is resource consuming and could lead to un-predictable results. We propose in the current paper a methodology based on domain specific ontology to calculate the similarity between organizations from process perspective and to offer a collaborative solution, business process based.