BPMN Model and Text Instructions Automatic Synchronization

Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Raphael de Almeida Rodrigues, Kate Revoredo

2018

Abstract

The proper representation of business processes is important for its execution and understanding. BPMN is the de facto standard notation for business process modeling. However domain specialists, which are experts in the business, do not have necessarily the modeling skills to easily read a BPMN model. Natural language is easier for them to read. Thus, both model and text are necessary artifacts for a broad communication. The manual edition of both artifacts may result in inconsistencies, due to unilateral modifications. This research proposes a framework for synchronizing BPMN model artifacts and its natural language text representation. It generates textual work instructions from the model, and it updates the original model if the textual instructions are edited. The framework was implemented using Java standard technology and evaluated through experiments. The first experiment concluded the textual work instructions can be considered equivalent to process models in terms of knowledge representation. The second experiment concluded the knowledge represented by the manually updated text can be considered equivalent to the automatically updated process model after the synchronization.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guerreiro Azevedo L., de Almeida Rodrigues R. and Revoredo K. (2018). BPMN Model and Text Instructions Automatic Synchronization.In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-298-1, pages 484-491. DOI: 10.5220/0006809604840491

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis18,
author={Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo and Raphael de Almeida Rodrigues and Kate Revoredo},
title={BPMN Model and Text Instructions Automatic Synchronization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2018},
pages={484-491},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006809604840491},
isbn={978-989-758-298-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - BPMN Model and Text Instructions Automatic Synchronization
SN - 978-989-758-298-1
AU - Guerreiro Azevedo L.
AU - de Almeida Rodrigues R.
AU - Revoredo K.
PY - 2018
SP - 484
EP - 491
DO - 10.5220/0006809604840491