TY - GEN
T1 - Zooming in for Clarity
T2 - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023
AU - Nour Eldin, Ali
AU - Baudot, Jonathan
AU - Gaaloul, Walid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) is a widely used standard workflow language for modeling business processes. However, there is a growing need to integrate data and process models to enable a more holistic view of business processes to reducing implementation time through a clear understanding of the mode, and BPMN has limitations in representing data-related concepts. To address this, we propose an extension to BPMN called DataFlow BPMN (DF-BPMN), which is a low-coding visual solution, for modeling and analyzing the relationship between process and data. Low-code is a growing development approach supported by many platforms. It fills the gap between business and developer. Indeed, it enables quick generation and delivery of business applications with minimum effort. We introduce the Activity DataFlow, an extension of activity that allows zooming into the data manipulated within it, which enable different levels of granularity: control-flow perspective and data perspective. Additionally, we developed a tool for creating a model with the DF-BPMN. Our approach has been evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, and the results demonstrate that DF-BPMN offers significant advantages over BPMN.
AB - Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) is a widely used standard workflow language for modeling business processes. However, there is a growing need to integrate data and process models to enable a more holistic view of business processes to reducing implementation time through a clear understanding of the mode, and BPMN has limitations in representing data-related concepts. To address this, we propose an extension to BPMN called DataFlow BPMN (DF-BPMN), which is a low-coding visual solution, for modeling and analyzing the relationship between process and data. Low-code is a growing development approach supported by many platforms. It fills the gap between business and developer. Indeed, it enables quick generation and delivery of business applications with minimum effort. We introduce the Activity DataFlow, an extension of activity that allows zooming into the data manipulated within it, which enable different levels of granularity: control-flow perspective and data perspective. Additionally, we developed a tool for creating a model with the DF-BPMN. Our approach has been evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, and the results demonstrate that DF-BPMN offers significant advantages over BPMN.
KW - BPMN
KW - Low-Code
KW - Process Modeling
KW - data models
KW - data perspective
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85172685780
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-41623-1_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-41623-1_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85172685780
SN - 9783031416224
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 267
EP - 282
BT - Business Process Management Forum - BPM 2023 Forum, Proceedings
A2 - Di Francescomarino, Chiara
A2 - Burattin, Andrea
A2 - Janiesch, Christian
A2 - Sadiq, Shazia
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 11 September 2023 through 15 September 2023
ER -