Data model development for process modeling recommender systems

Abstract

The manual construction of business process models is a timeconsuming and error-prone task. To ease the construction of such models, several modeling support techniques have been suggested. However, while recommendation systems are widely used e.g. in e-commerce, such techniques are rarely implemented in process modeling tools. The creation of such systems is a complex task since a large number of requirements and parameters have to be addressed. In order to improve the situation, we develop a data model that can serve as a backbone for the development of process modeling recommender systems (PMRS). We systematically develop the model in a stepwise approach using established requirements and validate it against a data model that has been reverse-engineered from a real-world system. We expect that our contribution will provide a useful starting point for designing the data perspective of process modeling recommendation features. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.