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Appendix F
Analysis of the Annotation and
the Integration Application in
Exemplar Studies
In this chapter, we provide analysis details of exemplar studies. Section F.1 describes
how SCOR ontology is annotated to PM A , PM B1 and PM B2 with our semantic annotation
approach. Based on the annotation results, an analysis of the integration
application for the applicability of the semantic annotation approach is depicted in
section F.2.
F.1 Semantic Annotation with SCOR ontology
Parts of the annotation results of the exemplar studies are displayed in Table 7.3, Table
7.4 and Table 7.5. Ten representive Activities out of 33 instances in PM A are listed in
Table 7.4. For the model annotation, same_as is applied when the Activity instance
undertakes the same task as the SCOR process element. "Transportation planning" in
PM A does actually accomplish the carriers selection and shipments rating (D1.7), no
more and no less work than that. When one Activity instance specifies the way of
doing of a certain SCOR process element, kind_of can be used. "Credit control" is
one way of managing the deliver capital assets (ED.5) in the context of PM A . Usually
the granularity of the Activity instances is smaller than the SCOR level 3 process
element, i.e. they are decomposed parts of SCOR process elements. Those Activities
are therefore phase_of the reference ontology concepts. Both "Client RFQ processing"
and "Client quotation processing" are two phases of D1.1 Process Inquiry
and Quote. As the goal annotation results, they are not obvious to see the inherent
link between the Activity instance and the goal ontology in the table. The automatic
goal annotation algorithm deduces the optional goal ontology concepts which
have the features relevant to the model fragment of the Activity instance. But it does
not mean that all the deduced goals are fulfilled by the Activity, the options are returned
with the weights. Generally the higher weight indicates that the returned goal
is more relevant to the Activity instance. Besides, the annotator will make the choices
based on the context of process models and manual annotation is also necessary in
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