BPMNRec Usage

• Bpstruct [the source link] (https://code.google.com/archive/p/bpstruct/wikis/CommandLineTool.wiki)

  Command line tool:

  BPStruct is available as a command line tool. Please download the latest bpstruct-x.y.z.jar file (see in featured downloads). The usage of the command line tool is proposed below.

  Usage: java -jar bpstruct.jar [options] <inputmodel> Options: -dot : Generate DOT file -odir FILE : Output directory

  The tool expects as input parameter - a file which contains a process model serialized in JSON format (for more information on the serialization format check here). Furthermore, the tool accepts two options:

  • dot : If -dot option is specified, then no structuring takes place. Instead, the input process model is serialized in DOT (Graphviz) format.
  • odir FILE : If -odir option with FILE parameter is specified, then all the output of the tool is forwarded to the FILE folder. Sample shell script

    • 1: java -jar bpstruct-x.y.z.jar model.json

    • 2: java -jar bpstruct-x.y.z.jar -dot model.json

    • 3: java -jar bpstruct-x.y.z.jar -dot model.struct.json

    • 4: dot -Tpng -omodel.png model.dot

    • 5: dot -Tpng -omodel.struct.png model.struct.dot

  At line 1, a process model in model.json gets structured; the result is serialized in model.struct.json. Both the input and the structured process model get serialized in DOT format at lines 2 and 3, respectively. Finally, visual representations of both process models are generated at lines 4 and 5 (in PNG format).

• BPMNDiffviz [the source link] (https://bitbucket.org/sivanov68/bpmndiffviz/src/master/)

  Usage:

  Get Sources: git clone https://sivanov68@bitbucket.org/sivanov68/bpmndiffviz.git

  Installation:

  1 Install Tomcat (tested with versions 7.0.54, 9.0.12 and 9.0.43) (https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi)

  2 Install PostgreSQL with pgAdmin (tested with versions 9.1.1 and 10.16) (http://www.postgresql.org/download/)

  • Type 89106540101 as a password for the postgres database user during setup

  3 Launch pgAdmin

  • pgAdmin 3:

    Connect to the localhost (File -> Add server... -> Name: any_name_you_want, Host: localhost, other fields: default)

    If connection is successfully established but you do not see any servers in the list restart pgAdmin3 (looks like a bug)

    Create database "vkr"

  • pgAdmin 4:

    Click on Servers > PostgreSQL > Databases and create a new database "vkr"

  4 If you want to make any changes (if you do not want then go to the next step):

  • Get sources of BPMNDiffViz

  • Set up database connection (BPMNDiffViz/src/main/webapp/jdbc.properties)

  • Build BPMNDiffViz.war by yourself using Maven ("mvn package" command) - You can find the instuctions for installing maven here: https://maven.apache.org/install.html

  • Get BPMNDiffViz/target/BPMNDiffViz.war

  5 Put BPMNDiffViz.war into Tomcat webapps folder (/webapps)

  6 Start Tomcat using shell (/bin/startup.bat)

  • If you are getting an error when tomcat can not bind to the port change it to 8081 (or any other not used port) in the /conf/server.xml

  7 Open browser and go to URL: http://localhost:8080/BPMNDiffViz/ (it may be another port if you changed it in the previous step)

  8 Create a folder for storing models and input it into the Models path field on the Settings tab

• BPMNRec --BPMNRec.ipynb

  • Firstly, set up bpstruct and download the MaxStructEvaluation dataset. Use bpstruct to convert non-structured BPMN models to structured models, obtaining the structured model's JSON files. In the BPMNRec.ipynb file, within the main function, replace Unstructured_transform.json with the JSON file obtained from the previous step.
  • Then, pass the BPMN models you want to compare to achieve distance calculation. Secondly, configure BPMNDiffviz to handle the computation for other recommendation algorithms.