Publikation
Using Graph Embedding Techniques in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning
Maximilian Hoffmann; Ralph Bergmann
In: Xiao Huang (Hrsg.). Algorithms, Vol. 15, No. 2, Page 25, MDPI, 2022.
Zusammenfassung
Similarity-based retrieval of semantic graphs is a core task of Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning with applications in real-world scenarios, e.g., in smart manufacturing. The involved similarity computation is usually complex and time-consuming, as it requires some kind of inexact graph matching. To tackle these problems, we present an approach to modeling similarity measures based on embedding semantic graphs via Graph-Neural Networks. Therefore, we first examine how arbitrary semantic graphs, including node and edge types and their knowledge-rich semantic annotations, can be encoded in a numeric format that is usable by GNNs. Given this, the architecture of two generic graph embedding models from the literature is adapted to enable their usage as a similarity measure for similarity-based retrieval. Thereby, one of the two models is more optimized towards fast similarity prediction, while the other model is optimized towards knowledge-intensive, more expressive predictions. The evaluation examines the quality and performance of these models in preselecting retrieval candidates and in approximating the ground-truth similarities of a graph-matching-based similarity measure for two semantic graph domains. The results show the great potential of the approach for use in a retrieval scenario, either as a preselection model or as an approximation of a graph similarity measure.