Business Process Model Summarization via Activity Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional business process models are overly complex due to numerous activities and connections, making it difficult for users to obtain a quick overview of the process, as they require scrolling and are cluttered, with no existing technique for summarization.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that identifies important activities within a business process model using techniques like natural language processing, graph analysis, and machine learning to generate a summary model, excluding non-essential activities and focusing on user queries to simplify the representation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional business process models include all activities and connections to maintain completeness, then the model maintains comprehensive process information, but the model becomes overly complex and cluttered making it difficult to obtain quick overview
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential activities from the complete business process model to create a summary model. It identifies and removes non-essential activities while preserving the core process flow, thereby reducing model complexity while maintaining the most important process information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the business process model into essential and non-essential activities. By dividing the complete model and selectively retaining only critical components, it creates a simplified summary model that is easier to understand while preserving key process information.
2Loss of information
If traditional business process models include all detailed activities to ensure completeness, then the model provides full process detail, but users require scrolling and the model becomes cluttered reducing ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts essential activities from the detailed business process model to create a condensed summary. This extraction process removes unnecessary details that cause clutter and scrolling requirements, while preserving the fundamental process information needed for understanding.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of displaying the complete detailed model, the patent applies partial action by showing only the essential portion of the process. This selective display reduces the visual clutter and scrolling needed while providing sufficient information for users to grasp the core process flow.
3Measurement precision
If traditional business process models maintain all activities to preserve complete process representation, then the model maintains full process accuracy, but analysis time increases due to complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts essential activities that represent the core process flow while removing non-essential activities. This extraction maintains accurate representation of the critical process steps while reducing the overall number of activities, thereby decreasing analysis time without sacrificing process accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the process model to separate essential from non-essential activities. By focusing analysis on the segmented essential portion, users can quickly understand the core process flow without being overwhelmed by all detailed activities, thus reducing analysis time while maintaining process accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining a business process model representing a process flow having a plurality of steps for performing a business process, the business process model being a graphical representation of the process flow and including geometrical shapes representing activities of the process flow and edges representing a temporal ordering of the activities of the process flow; identifying important activities of the business process model; and generating a summary business process model from the business process model, wherein the summary business process model comprises nodes representing the important activities and excludes other nodes included within the business process model.