Declarative Versus Imperative Business Process Languages - A Controlled Experiment

Natália C. Silva, César A. L. de Oliveira, Fabiane A. L. A. Albino, Ricardo M. F. Lima

2014

Abstract

It has been argued that traditional workflows lack of flexibility to cope with complex and changing environments found in several business domains. The declarative approach surged with the aim of enabling more flexible business process management systems. Processes are designed in terms of activities and rules that constrain their execution. As such, declarative models are less rigid and prescriptive than workflows, since this approach focus on modeling what must be done but not how. Despite these arguments, there is no quantitative evidence that the benefits provided by current declarative approaches outperform the features of traditional workflows. In this work, we present the results of a controlled experiment conducted to empirically compare Workflow and Declarative approaches to business process modeling. Our findings suggest that there is no signficative difference from adopting one approach or the other.

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C. Silva N., A. L. de Oliveira C., A. L. A. Albino F. and M. F. Lima R. (2014). Declarative Versus Imperative Business Process Languages - A Controlled Experiment . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 394-401. DOI: 10.5220/0004896203940401


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@conference{iceis14,
author={Natália C. Silva and César A. L. de Oliveira and Fabiane A. L. A. Albino and Ricardo M. F. Lima},
title={Declarative Versus Imperative Business Process Languages - A Controlled Experiment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={394-401},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004896203940401},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Declarative Versus Imperative Business Process Languages - A Controlled Experiment
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - C. Silva N.
AU - A. L. de Oliveira C.
AU - A. L. A. Albino F.
AU - M. F. Lima R.
PY - 2014
SP - 394
EP - 401
DO - 10.5220/0004896203940401