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International Conference on Business Process Management

BPM 2013: Business Process Management Workshops pp 185–197Cite as

Automatic Generation of Business Process Models Based on Attribute Relationship Diagrams

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 171))

Abstract

Attribute-Relationship Diagrams (ARD) aim at capturing dependencies between attributes describing an information system. They were proposed to prototype rule bases in an iterative manner. In the paper, we propose to apply the ARD method to business processes. We describe a technique of automatic generation of a BPMN model with decision table schemas for business rule tasks and form attributes for user tasks from the ARD diagram. In our approach, processes and rules are generated simultaneously. Thanks to this, they are complementary and can be directly executed using our hybrid execution environment.

The paper is supported by the HiBuProBuRul Project funded from NCN (National Science Centre) resources for science (no. DEC-2011/03/N/ST6/00909).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The corresponding TPH diagram can be accessed at (in Polish): http://ai.ia.agh.edu.pl/wiki/student:msc2008_bizrules_cases:hekate_case_ploc.

  2. 2.

    For user-friendliness of task names, if the attribute \(t\) is of the symbolic type or derived one, the word “Determine” should be used in the task name. In other cases (i.e. numeric types), one can use the word “Calculate” instead.

  3. 3.

    The conceptual attribute name can be found in the corresponding TPH model, if it is available for the algorithm. In other case, in the task name the names of all the attributes from the \(T_f\) set can be used.

  4. 4.

    If a particular conceptual attribute covers a single input attribute, create a User task “Enter \(name(a)\)” instead.

  5. 5.

    The AND gateway is necessary if there are more than one BR tasks to be connected.

  6. 6.

    This subset of output BR tasks should not be empty.

  7. 7.

    If there is only one output attribute, its name should be used instead of \(name(c)\).

  8. 8.

    See: http://www.jboss.org/jbpm/

  9. 9.

    See: http://www.activiti.org/

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Kluza, K., Nalepa, G.J. (2014). Automatic Generation of Business Process Models Based on Attribute Relationship Diagrams. In: Lohmann, N., Song, M., Wohed, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 171. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06257-0_15

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