Modeling Decision-Intensive Processes with Declarative Business Artifacts

Abstract

Modern business processes often need to support knowledge workers that are responsible for making decisions about real-world business entities such as orders and quotes. Such decision-intensive processes are driven by data and require flexibility in their execution. Business artifacts model data and process aspects of business entities in a holistic way and are therefore well-suited to model data-driven processes. Declarative process models support flexible process executions. Therefore, declarative business artifacts are a promising ingredient to support decision-intensive processes. However, there are several challenges that need to be overcome in order to support real-world decision-intensive processes with declarative business artifacts. This position paper discusses key challenges and discusses preliminary solutions to overcome them and turn declarative business artifacts into a mature modeling language for decision-intensive processes.