Efficient and accurate retrieval of business process models through indexing (short paper)

Abstract

Recent years have seen an increased uptake of business process management technology in various industries. This has resulted in organizations trying to manage large collections of business process models. One of the challenges facing these organizations concerns the retrieval of models from large business process model repositories. As process model repositories may be large, query evaluation may be time consuming. Hence, we investigate the use of indexes to speed up this evaluation process. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate that our proposal achieves a significant reduction in query evaluation time. © Springer-Verlag 2010.