scholarly journals A Lightweight BPMN Extension for Business Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Benedetto Intrigila ◽  
Giuseppe Della Penna ◽  
Andrea D’Ambrogio

Process-oriented requirements engineering approaches are often required to deal with the effective adaptation of existing processes in order to easily introduce new or updated requirements. Such approaches are based on the adoption of widely used notations, such as the one introduced by the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard. However, BPMN models do not convey enough information on the involved entities and how they interact with process activities, thus leading to ambiguities, as well as to incomplete and inconsistent requirements definitions. This paper proposes an approach that allows stakeholders and software analysts to easily merge and integrate behavioral and data properties in a BPMN model, so as to fully exploit the potential of BPMN without incurring into the aforementioned limitation. The proposed approach introduces a lightweight BPMN extension that specifically addresses the annotation of data properties in terms of constraints, i.e., pre- and post-conditions that the different process activities must satisfy. The visual representation of the annotated model conveys all the information required both by stakeholders, to understand and validate requirements, and by software analysts and developers, to easily map these updates to the corresponding software implementation. The presented approach is illustrated by use of two running examples, which have also been used to carry out a preliminary validation activity.

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 763-767
Author(s):  
Guo Xing Yun ◽  
Jie Zhang

In order to develop the process-oriented software, we put forward hierarchical colored Petri net (HCPN) to model business process. This approach consists of hierarchical decomposition graph, detailed process graph. Furthermore, the concept of business process components (BPCs) is proposed to facility the business process modeling. The software components, which are constructs of the information system, can be derived by means of the mapping from the relevant business process components. The development of business process-oriented application will be more convenient and rapid based on component library. Such an application becomes more flexible to the changing environment.


Author(s):  
Mostefai Abdelkader ◽  
Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán

This paper formulates the process model matching problem as an optimization problem and presents a heuristic approach based on genetic algorithms for computing a good enough alignment. An alignment is a set of not overlapping correspondences (i.e., pairs) between two process models(i.e., BP) and each correspondence is a pair of two sets of activities that represent the same behavior. The first set belongs to a source BP and the second set to a target BP. The proposed approach computes the solution by searching, over all possible alignments, the one that maximizes the intra-pairs cohesion while minimizing inter-pairs coupling. Cohesion of pairs and coupling between them is assessed using a proposed heuristic that combines syntactic and semantic similarity metrics. The proposed approach was evaluated on three well-known datasets. The results of the experiment showed that the approach has the potential to match business process models effectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Scot Ausborn ◽  
Julia Rotondo ◽  
Tim Mulcahy

Mapping the General Social Survey to the Generic Statistical Business Process Model: NORC's Experience


2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao HE ◽  
Zhi-Yi MA ◽  
Yan ZHANG ◽  
Wei-Zhong SHAO

Author(s):  
Zhyldyz Kalpeyeva ◽  
Aizhan Kassymova ◽  
Timur Umarov ◽  
Akkyz Mustafina ◽  
Nurzhan Mukazhanov

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