Designing Business Processes with a Recommendation-Based Editor

Abstract

Knowledge of modeling language syntax is usually not sufficient for building good process models. Profound modeling experience is required to apply a modeling language in practice. The productivity of users without any modeling experience is low and thus the quality of the modeling result may be unsatisfying if respective modeling tool support is missing. In this chapter, we present a recommendation-based editor for process modeling, which can help overcome this problem by reducing the need for the user to study the modeling notation and consequently direct her to focus on the model content. Early evaluations indicate the effectiveness of our approach, which goes beyond conventional modeling support for business processes.