METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF PROCESS GOALS

摘要

The invention relates to a method and a system for automatic extraction of process goals from a semantically annotated structured process model comprising model elements named by natural language expressions and annotated with semantic linkages to a reference process ontology comprising the steps of: splitting said process model having at least one end event into partial process models provided for each end event of said process model; annotating the model elements of each partial process model with a process goal extracted from said model element; and decoupling of the process goals from each annotated partial process model to generate a hierarchical process goal tree for each annotated partial process model.