Abstract
Declarative approaches to process modeling are regarded as well suited for highly volatile environments as they provide a high degree of flexibility. However, problems in understanding and maintaining declarative business process models impede often their usage. In particular, how declarative models are understood has not been investigated yet. This paper takes a first step toward addressing this question and reports on an exploratory study investigating how analysts make sense of declarative process models. We have handed out real-world declarative process models to subjects and asked them to describe the illustrated process. Our qualitative analysis shows that subjects tried to describe the processes in a sequential way although the models represent circumstantial information, namely, conditions that produce an outcome, rather than a sequence of activities. Finally, we observed difficulties with single building blocks and combinations of relations between activities.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 14th International Conference, BPMDS 2013, 18th International Conference, EMMSAD 2013, Held at CAiSE 2013, Proceedings |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 2-17 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783642384837 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2013 |
Event | 14th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2013, and the 18th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2013, Held at CAiSE 2013 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 17 Jun 2013 → 18 Jun 2013 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing |
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Volume | 147 LNBIP |
ISSN (Print) | 1865-1348 |
Conference
Conference | 14th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2013, and the 18th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2013, Held at CAiSE 2013 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Valencia |
Period | 17/06/13 → 18/06/13 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research is supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P23699-N23 and the BIT fellowship program.
Keywords
- Declarative Process Models
- Empirical Research
- Understandability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Management Information Systems
- Business and International Management
- Information Systems
- Modeling and Simulation
- Information Systems and Management