TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a Multi-model Paradigm for Business Process Management
AU - Alman, Anti
AU - Maggi, Fabrizio Maria
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
AU - Rivkin, Andrey
AU - Winter, Karolin
PY - 2024/6/3
Y1 - 2024/6/3
N2 - The design and development of information systems (IS) often requires not only software development expertise, but also a deep understanding of the multitude of business processes supported by the given IS. Such understanding is usually elicited via business process modeling and numerous, often interrelated, process models can be created even for a single IS. However, commonly used process modeling languages focus on single processes in isolation, while providing, at best, only limited support for modeling process interactions. This does enforce a clear scope on each process model, but also leads to a non-holistic view of the IS behavior. In this exploratory paper, we take the position that, instead of forcing existing “single-process-focused” models to be changed, approaches should be provided for modeling their interactions in a fine-grained and unambiguous manner. To meet this goal, we propose developing a Multi-Model paradigm for Business Process Management, where the same, already existing, declarative and procedural modeling languages would be used to represent both the individual processes as well as their interactions.
AB - The design and development of information systems (IS) often requires not only software development expertise, but also a deep understanding of the multitude of business processes supported by the given IS. Such understanding is usually elicited via business process modeling and numerous, often interrelated, process models can be created even for a single IS. However, commonly used process modeling languages focus on single processes in isolation, while providing, at best, only limited support for modeling process interactions. This does enforce a clear scope on each process model, but also leads to a non-holistic view of the IS behavior. In this exploratory paper, we take the position that, instead of forcing existing “single-process-focused” models to be changed, approaches should be provided for modeling their interactions in a fine-grained and unambiguous manner. To meet this goal, we propose developing a Multi-Model paradigm for Business Process Management, where the same, already existing, declarative and procedural modeling languages would be used to represent both the individual processes as well as their interactions.
KW - Business Process Management
KW - Business Process Modeling
KW - Hybrid Process Model
KW - Model Interplay
KW - Multi-Model Paradigm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85196738860&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-61057-8_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-61057-8_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85196738860
SN - 978-3-031-61056-1
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
SP - 178
EP - 194
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A2 - Guizzardi, Giancarlo
A2 - Santoro, Flavia
A2 - Mouratidis, Haralambos
A2 - Soffer, Pnina
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2024
Y2 - 3 June 2024 through 7 June 2024
ER -