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When it comes to the understanding and usage of business process models, there exists a gap between process modeling method experts and domain experts. This paper proposes an approach to close this gap by using simple spreadsheet-based representations of process models. For this, different approaches for the modeling of business processes in spreadsheets are introduced and evaluated. Transformations from and into BPMN 2.0 are investigated and on basis of these results, a round-tripping concept for process models is developed. Finally, a prototype is introduced that proves the applicability of this concept.
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Krumnow, S., Decker, G. (2010). A Concept for Spreadsheet-Based Process Modeling. In: Mendling, J., Weidlich, M., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Modeling Notation. BPMN 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 67. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16298-5_7
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