-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Submissions: Process Model Matching Contest 2013 Datum: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:02:51 +0300 Von: Matthias Weidlich weidlich@techunix.technion.ac.il An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Process Model Matching Contest 2013

at the 4th International Workshop on Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-MR'13) Beijing, China, August 26, 2013

http://processcollections.org/matching-contest

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Business process models play an important role for managing business processes and are created, for instance, for requirements analysis, communication, automation and compliance. In essence, a process model defines a set of activities and dependencies for their execution.

Process model matching refers to the creation of an alignment between process models, i.e., the creation of correspondences between their activities. In recent years, many techniques building on process model matching have been proposed. Examples include techniques for the validation of a technical implementation of a business process against a business-centered specification model, delta-analysis of process implementations and a reference model, harmonization of process variants, process model search, or clone detection. Inspired by the field of schema matching and ontology alignment, this demand led to the development of different techniques for process model matching. Yet, these techniques are heuristics and, thus, their results are inherently uncertain and need to be evaluated on a common basis. Currently, however, the BPM community lacks established datasets and frameworks for evaluation. This contest aims at addressing the need for effective evaluation. Towards this end, the contest defines process model matching problems, publishes datasets for these problems, and seeks implementations that solve them.

The results of the contest will be summarized at the contest website, presented at the 4th International Workshop on Process Model Collections, and published in joint paper with successful participants as part of the workshop proceedings.

------------------- Matching Problems -------------------

The contest includes two sets of process model matching problems.

* University Admission Processes, process models that represent the admission processes of nine German universities.

* Birth Registration Processes, process models that represent birth registration processes in Germany, Russia, South Africa, and the Netherlands.

The datasets and details on data formats can be found at the contest homepage:

http://processcollections.org/matching-contest

------------------- Participation -------------------

In order to take part in the matching contest, participants are asked to solve the given matching problems with their self-developed matching technique. Further, to publish the results of the contest, there will be a joint paper with participants as part of the workshop proceedings. As input for the joint publication, all participants have to provide a description of their matching technique. This description must be no more than 2 pages long (excluding references, LNBIP formatting).

In sum, participants are required to prepare the following material and submit it by email to the contest organizers till July 1.

* For each pair of process models that should be matched (there are 2×36 pairs overall) a file with the automatically identified correspondences must be provided.

* For the self-developed matching technique, a description following must be provided.

Details on the data formats and a template for the description of the matching technique can also be found at the contest homepage.

------------------- Schedule -------------------

* Publication of datasets: May 15, 2013. * Submission deadline (results and description): July 1, 2013. * Workshop: August 26, 2013.

------------------- Organizers -------------------

* Henrik Leopold, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany * Matthias Weidlich, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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