Cross-domain similarity assessment for workflow improvement to handle Big Data challenge in workflow management

Journal of Big Data

Table 1 Existing approaches to similarity assessment in workflow domains

Ref.	Text based	Structure based			Goals	Data scope	Level
Ref.	Text based	Label motifs	Topological motifs	Topology	Goals	Data scope	Level
[35]	BW	No	No	No	SR	S	F1
[23]	Frequent tag sets	No	No	Frequent MS	Data exploration	S	F1
[15]	No	No	Common motifs, ML	No	Wf visual compression	S	F2
[19]	No	No	Common motifs, MM	No	Organizing and grouping	S	F2
[8]	No	Semantic annotations	MDL, size	No	SR	S	F2
[21]	No	No	No	Label matching, GED	SR	B	F1, F2
[6]	BT, BW	No	No	MS, GED, PS	Facilitating reuse	S	F1, F2
[14]	No	Semantic annotations	No	No	Summarization	S	F1
[22]	No	No	No	PS	Improve Wf design	S, B	F2
[9]	No	No	MM	No	SR	S, B	F2