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Enriching Business Processes with Rules Using the Oryx BPMN Editor

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2012)

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Abstract

BPMN is a leading visual notation for modeling Business Processes. Although it can be efficiently used for modeling workflow structures, it is not suitable for modeling the low-level logic of particular tasks in the process. Recently, Business Rules have been used for this purpose. Such rules are often specified in natural language and in an informal way. In this paper, we consider an approach to the integration of Business Processes with Business Rules. As a proof of concept, we propose a framework based on the Oryx BPMN editor integrated with rule-based tools. The goal of the integration of the BPMN editor with the XTT2 rule framework is to provide an environment for visual modeling processes with formally described business rules. We also discuss execution options of the integrated model. In the future, this opens up a possibility to execute such models using the HeaRT rule engine.

The paper is supported by the BIMLOQ Project funded from 2010–2012 resources for science as a research project.

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    Krzysztof Kluza, Krzysztof Kaczor & Grzegorz J. Nalepa

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Kluza, K., Kaczor, K., Nalepa, G.J. (2012). Enriching Business Processes with Rules Using the Oryx BPMN Editor. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29350-4_68

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