Automatic generation of business process models based on Attribute Relationship Diagrams

Abstract

Attribute-Relationship Diagrams (ARD) aim at capturing dependencies between attributes describing an information system. They were proposed to prototype rule bases in an iterative manner. In the paper, we propose to apply the ARD method to business processes. We describe a technique of automatic generation of a BPMN model with decision table schemas for business rule tasks and form attributes for user tasks from the ARD diagram. In our approach, processes and rules are generated simultaneously. Thanks to this, they are complementary and can be directly executed using our hybrid execution environment. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.