Evaluating Social Tagging for Business Process Models

Evaluating Social Tagging for Business Process Models

Autor_innen: Ralf Laue, Michael Becker

The 5th Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2’12), Publikation bei Springer

Finding business process models in a model repository is a challenge that needs to be tackled for efficient business process management. Existing process model similarity measures compare models based on named elements and model structure. Social tagging enriches models with so-called tags — words or short phrases describing the content of the model. The tags given to models offer another possibility to judge about the similarity between models. In this paper we compare both approaches based on a study conducted with students. We discuss first insights and perspectives for tag-based search for process models.