BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS MODELS AND WORKFLOW SPECIFICATIONS

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 289-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIANE DEHNERT ◽  
WIL M. P. VAN DER AALST
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Correctness Criterion ◽  
Process Chains ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents a methodology to bridge the gap between business process modeling and workflow specification. While the first is concerned with intuitive descriptions that are mainly used for communication, the second is concerned with configuring a process-aware information system, thus requiring a more rigorous language less suitable for communication. Unlike existing approaches the gap is not bridged by providing formal semantics for an informal language. Instead it is assumed that the desired behavior is just a subset of the full behavior obtained using a liberal interpretation of the informal business process modeling language. Using a new correctness criterion (relaxed soundness), it is verified whether a selection of suitable behavior is possible. The methodology consists of five steps and is illustrated using event-driven process chains as a business process modeling language and Petri nets as the workflow specification language.

scholarly journals Influence of diagram layout and scrolling on understandability of BPMN processes: an eye tracking experiment with BPMN diagrams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lübke ◽  
Maike Ahrens ◽  
Kurt Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Process Diagrams ◽  
Style Guides ◽  
Important Activity

AbstractBusiness process modeling is an important activity for developing software systems—especially within digitization projects and when realizing digital business models. Specifying requirements and building executable workflows is often done by using BPMN 2.0 process models. Although there are several style guides available for BPMN, e.g., by Silver and Richard (BPMN method and style, vol 2, Cody-Cassidy Press, Aptos, 2009), there has not been much empirical research done into the consequences of the diagram layout. In particular, layouts that require scrolling have not been investigated yet. The aim of this research is to establish layout guidelines for business process modeling that help business process modelers to create more understandable business process diagrams. For establishing benefits and penalties of different layouts, a controlled eye tracking experiment was conducted, in which data of 21 professional software developers was used. Our results show that horizontal layouts are less demanding and that as many diagram elements as possible should be put on the initially visible screen area because such diagram elements are viewed more often and longer. Additionally, diagram elements related to the reader’s task are read more often than those not relevant to the task. BPMN modelers should favor a horizontal layout and use a more complex snake or multi-line layout whenever the diagrams are too large to fit on one page in order to support BPMN model comprehension.

scholarly journals An Extension of BPMN Meta-model for Evaluation of Business Processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azeem Lodhi ◽  
Veit Küppen ◽  
Gunter Saake
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Business Units

An Extension of BPMN Meta-model for Evaluation of Business ProcessesBusiness process modeling is used for better understanding and communication of company's processes. Mostly, business process modeling is discussed from the information system development perspective. Execution of a business process involves various factors (costs and time) which are important and should be represented in business process models. Controlling of business units uses post execution analysis for detection of failures for improvement. The process models conceived for information system development are not sufficient for post execution analysis. This paper focuses on the challenges of business process modeling in the post execution context. We provide a meta model for evaluation of a business process and discuss BPMN in this context. We also extend existing BPMN meta model for performance analysis of business processes. The proposed extensions are presented with the help of an example.

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