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Abstract

A methodology for semi-automatic unification of models of business processes permits accurate comparison of business processes across government agencies or other organizations despite heterogeneity of language and style in the original models. Input into an algorithm includes a set of models produced by different organizations that describe roughly equivalent business processes (the original models). Output includes a single integrated model in which similarities are made explicit in shared generic layers of the model, while differences are represented in organization-specific layers that inherit from the generic layers (the unified model). Internally, the system represents the original and unified models in description logic using the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

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