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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAaron B. Brown, Melissa J. Buco, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Christopher Ward
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Described are a method, system and apparatus for the association of an existing process with a reference process and ontology so that the process may be manipulated to the advantage of the process owner. Specifically, once integrated and associated into the process ontology repository and the process graph repository the invention describes how the processes can be expressed so as to show the relationship between process elements at different levels; permit queries against them; provide a way to find similar process elements based on the ontology; facilitate the creation of transformation plans that express how divergent processes can be converged based on similarities identified by the process analysis; associate processes to canonical workflow elements; and retarget process workflows to different workflow engines based on these associations.
A system for identifying similarities and differences between processes, through the use of an ontology, said system comprising:
A method of identifying similarities and differences between processes, through use of an ontology, the method comprising the steps of:
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of identifying similarities and differences between processes, through use of an ontology, the method comprising the steps of:
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