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Separation of Concerns in Model Elicitation – Role-Based Actor-Driven Business Process Modeling

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S-BPM ONE - Application Studies and Work in Progress (S-BPM ONE 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 422))

Abstract

Elicitation of business process knowledge can be facilitated by visualization of conceptual process models. Models of collaborative business processes with actors participating in different roles are complex constructs with flows of individual activities that are coupled via acts of communication. The processes of elicitation in such cases can benefit from separating the modeling process for each role and let actors focus on their own contribution to work and their communication with other roles. This paper identifies concepts for model visualization and modeling support that enable a modeling process distributed across role while maintaining one consistent overall model representation. A prototypical implementation of these concepts using distributed tangible tabletop interfaces is presented and results of exploratory tests are discussed. Based on this results the introduced concepts are refined end extended together with an industry partner to create a table top device which can be used in real world model elicitation scenarios.

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  1. Department of Business Information Systems – Communications Engineering, Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

    Stefan Oppl

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Oppl, S., Rothschädl, T. (2014). Separation of Concerns in Model Elicitation – Role-Based Actor-Driven Business Process Modeling. In: Zehbold, C. (eds) S-BPM ONE - Application Studies and Work in Progress. S-BPM ONE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 422. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06191-7_1

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