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Generating Formal Process Models and Decisions from Examination Rules in Natural Text with ChatGPT

Topics: Requirements Engineering; Business Process Management and Engineering; Quality Management; SSE for Data and Process Mining ; Software Developments for Science and Research

Authors: Andreas Speck ¹ , Melanie Windrich ¹ , Jan Hesse ¹ , Melina Sentz ¹ , David Kuhlen ² , Thomas Stuht ³ and Elke Pulvermüller ⁴

Affiliations: ¹ Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany , ² IU International University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany , ³ PPI AG, Hamburg, Germany , ⁴ School of Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0013481600003928

Proceedings of ENASE 2025, ISBN: 978-989-758-742-9

Quick Abstract

Many business and administrative systems are modeled with business process models in a notation like Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) supported by tools like Camunda (BPMN, 2025). When such systems are to be build in most cases the requirements and rules are recorded in plain text. This raises the desire using AI tools (artificial intelligence) for generating business process models from the text. The question is to which extend AI techniques may support the development of formal process models. We apply ChatGPT to analyze judicial regulations written natural text (examination regulation) and request transforming the text to process models and decision diagrams as an XML exchange file which may be displayed in the Camunda Modeler.

Improved Business Analysis by Using 3D Models

Topics: Software Development Methodologies; Requirements Engineering; Collaborative Software Engineering; Empirical Software Engineering; Analysis and Design Methods

Authors: David Kuhlen ¹ and Andreas Speck ²

Affiliations: ¹ IU International University of Applied Sciences, Waterloohain 9, 22769 Hamburg, Germany , ² Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Hermann-Rodewald-Straße 3, 24118 Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0011989400003464

Proceedings of ENASE 2023, ISBN: 978-989-758-647-7

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The use of 3D objects may enhance the requirements engineering procedures. Different approaches using 3D modelling in requirements engineering, are described in the academic literature. Furthermore, the state of research shows objectives which can be obtained by using 3D modelling. This provides a good basis to formulate a reference model which helps project managers to plan the use of 3D modelling in requirements engineering. In order to support the usage of 3D modelling in requirements engineering, a reference model is designed. This model should help project managers, to plan the usage of 3D modelling. For doing so, project managers need to know why, how and when to use 3D modelling. The findings from literature were used in combination with an experiment, to elaborate a recommendation for using 3D models in requirements engineering. The experiment was combined with a survey in a requirements engineering lecture at IU International University of Applied Sciences. The experiment shows 3D modelling by using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to be a liked method. The method seems to facilitate the motivation and collaboration. However, a further pre-analysis, before using the regular LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method shows no significant effect, to improve the analysis. A reference model was proposed to guide the usage of 3D modelling in requirements engineering. Especially the phases of requirements elicitation and the solution design benefit from using 3D modelling techniques in this proposal.

Decision Model and Notation for Describing Variability in Business Process Product Lines

Topics: Software Development Methodologies; Business Process Management and Engineering; Software Product Line Engineering; Software and Service Design

Authors: Andreas Speck , Aljoscha Jagenow and Melanie Windrich

Affiliation: Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0010497204450452

Proceedings of ENASE 2021, ISBN: 978-989-758-508-1

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Product line techniques have proven being a successful concept of software reuse. Hence, product line techniques have been applied for business process models. Although there are well established models for describing business processes such as BPMN or ARIS there is a lack of describing the variability in business processes. In the paper, we propose to apply Decision Model and Notation (DMN) for modeling process variability. DMN has the advantage that it is a known concept and well understood. DMN supports the decision techniques by defining the variability in business processes and with the rules defining the variability.

Capturing Tracing Data Life Cycles for Supporting Traceability

Topics: Requirements Engineering; Architectural Design and Frameworks; Frameworks and Middleware

Authors: Dennis Ziegenhagen ¹ , Elke Pulvermueller ² and Andreas Speck ³

Affiliations: ¹ Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany, Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück University, Postfach 4469, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany , ² Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück University, Postfach 4469, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany , ³ Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0009581805640571

Proceedings of ENASE 2020, ISBN: 978-989-758-421-3

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Activities for achieving traceability in software development projects include planning, implementing, using and maintaining a suitable strategy. Current research aims at supporting these activities by automating the involved tasks, processes and applications. In this paper, we present a concept for developing a flexible framework which enables the integration of respective functional modules, e.g. artifact data extractors and trace link generators, to form traceability environments according to the project’s demands. By automating the execution of the framework’s components and monitoring artifact-related interactions between developers and their tools, the tracing data’s life cycle is captured and provided for further usages. This paper presents an exemplified framework setup which is used to demonstrate the path and enrichment of tracing data along these components. Furthermore, we discuss observations and findings which we made during defining and realizing the example. We aim at using this information to further improve the framework in order to support the implementation of traceability environments.

Using Developer-tool-Interactions to Expand Tracing Capabilities

Topics: Model-Driven Engineering; Application Integration Technologies; Requirements Engineering; Frameworks and Middleware

Authors: Dennis Ziegenhagen ¹ , Andreas Speck ² and Elke Pulvermüller ³

Affiliations: ¹ Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany, Institute for Computer Science, Osnabrueck University, Postfach 4469, 49069 Osnabrück and Germany , ² Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098 Kiel and Germany , ³ Institute for Computer Science, Osnabrueck University, Postfach 4469, 49069 Osnabrück and Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0007762905180525

Proceedings of ENASE 2019, ISBN: 978-989-758-375-9

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Expanding current software traceability methodologies offers opportunities to significantly support development activities. State-of-the-art traceability frameworks use tracing data at specific points in time. This data includes information about development artefacts and their relations, which may be used for analysis, visualisation and similar purposes. In between those points in time, developers create, modify or delete requirements, diagrams, source code and other relevant artefacts. We propose to capture such artefact interactions in order to enrich the tracing data. By applying existing approaches in the field of developer-tool interaction analysis to the enriched data, we aim at supporting the developer’s work. In this paper, we present the overall approach, along with our development of a modular framework which may be used to capture the desired data from various tools, manage it and finally enable the execution of developer-interaction analyses.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (11)

Application Integration Technologies	Knowledge Management and Information Sharing	Software Engineering
Applications	Knowledge-Based Systems	Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
Artificial Intelligence	Model-Driven Engineering	Symbolic Systems
Cross-Feeding between Data and Software Engineering	Requirements Engineering

Integrating Validation Techniques for Process-based Models

Topics: Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering; Business and Software Modeling Languages; Software Quality Management; Software and Systems Development Methodologies

Authors: Andreas Speck ¹ , Sören Witt ¹ , Sven Feja ¹ , Sören Feja ¹ and Elke Pulvermueller ²

Affiliations: ¹ Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany , ² University of Osnabrueck, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0004569202460253

Proceedings of ENASE 2013, ISBN: 978-989-8565-62-4

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Model checking has been established as an appropriate technology to validate behavioral properties of (business) process based systems. However, further validation technologies (e. g. for structural properties) may be of interest for process models. We propose a concept to integrate validation technologies in a unique system with a common user interface.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (14)

Applications	Enterprise Engineering	Software and Systems Development Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence	Enterprise Information Systems	Software Engineering
Business and Software Modeling Languages	Knowledge Management and Information Sharing	Software Quality Management
Business Process Management	Knowledge-Based Systems	Symbolic Systems
e-Business	Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management

PRAGMATICS OF STORYBOARDING - Web Information Systems Portfolios

Topics: User Modeling; Communities of Interest; Usability and Ergonomics

Authors: Klaus-Dieter Schewe ¹ and Bernhard Thalheim ²

Affiliations: ¹ Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand , ² University of Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0002800400400047

Proceedings of WEBIST 2010, ISBN: 978-989-674-025-2

Quick Abstract

AWeb Information System (WIS) can be described by a storyboard, which on a high level of abstraction specifies who will be using the system, in which way and for which goals. Syntax and semantics of storyboarding have been well-elaborated. Pragmatics is the necessary complement addressing what the storyboard means for its users. The part of pragmatics concerned with usage analysis by means of life cases, user models and contexts has been dealt with before. In this paper we complement usage analysis by WIS portfolios, which comprise two parts: the information portfolio and the utilisation portfolio. The former one is concerned with information consumed and produced by the WIS users, which leads to content chunks; the latter one captures functionality requirements.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (6)

Communities of Interest		Usability and Ergonomics		Web Information Systems and Technologies
Society, e-Business and e-Government		User Modeling		Web Interfaces and Applications

PROCESS MODEL VALIDATION - Transforming Process Models to Extended Checking Models

Topics: Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering; Software Development Methodologies; Business and Software Modeling Languages; Software Quality Management; Formal Methods

Authors: Elke Pulvermüller ¹ , Andreas Speck ² , Sven Feja ² and Sören Witt ²

Affiliations: ¹ University Osnabrück, Germany , ² Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0003016602140220

Proceedings of ENASE 2010, ISBN: 978-989-8425-21-8

Quick Abstract

Process and workflow models are typical means to describe the dynamic activities of a system. Therefore, it is of high interest to validate these models. Many kinds of (business) rules, best practices, patterns, legal regulations may serve as specifications which the models have to fulfill. An already established technique to validate models of dynamic activities is model checking. In model checking the requirements are expressed by temporal logic. Temporal logic allows describing temporal dependencies. The models to be verified by model checkers are automata. In this context the question is how to transform process or workflow models into automata and how to specify the temporal logic in the way that the semantic of the process models is considered sufficiently. In our paper we present three approach to transform process models to checkable automata. We use the example of ARIS Event-driven Process Chains. In particular, the third approach introduces specializers enabling semantic-rich requirement specifications. This reduces the gap between process models (consisting of different model element types) and verification models.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (17)

Applications	Enterprise Information Systems	Software and Systems Development Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence	Formal Methods	Software Engineering
Business and Software Modeling Languages	Knowledge Management and Information Sharing	Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
Business Process Management	Knowledge-Based Systems	Software Quality Management
e-Business	Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management	Symbolic Systems
Enterprise Engineering	Simulation and Modeling

LIFE CASES - An Approach to Address Pragmatics in the Design of Web Information Systems

Topics: User Modeling; Web Personalization; Usability and Ergonomics

Authors: Klaus-Dieter Schewe ¹ and Bernhard Thalheim ²

Affiliations: ¹ Massey University, New Zealand , ² Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0001261000050012

Proceedings of WEBIST 2007, ISBN: 978-972-8865-78-8

Quick Abstract

On a high level of abstraction a Web Information System (WIS) can be described by a storyboard, which in an abstract way specifies who will be using the system, in which way and for which goals. While syntax and semantics of storyboarding has been well explored, its pragmatics has not. This paper contributes the first step towards closing this gap. For this we present life cases, which capture observations of user behaviour in reality. We discuss the facets of life cases and present a semi-formal way for their documentation. Life cases can be used in a pragmatic way to specify a story space, which is an important component of a storyboard.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (7)

Data Engineering	User Modeling	Web Interfaces and Applications
Ontologies and the Semantic Web	Web Information Systems and Technologies	Web Personalization
Usability and Ergonomics

LEARNING BY DOING AND LEARNING WHEN DOING - Dovetailing E-Learning and Decision Support with a Data Mining Tutor

Topic: e-Learning

Authors: Klaus P. Jantke ¹ , Steffen Lange ¹ , Gunter Grieser ² , Peter Grigoriev ² , Bernhard Thalheim ³ and Bernd Tschiedel ⁴

Affiliations: ¹ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany , ² Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany , ³ Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany , ⁴ Technical University of Cottbus, Germany

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0002623602380241

Proceedings of ICEIS 2004, ISBN: 972-8865-00-7

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In this paper, e-learning meets decision support in enterprises’ business practice. This presentation is based on an on-line e-learning system named DaMiT for the domain of knowledge discovery and data mining (see http://damit.dfki.de). The DaMiT system has primarily been developed for technology enhanced learning in German academia. It is now on the cusp of entering training on demand in enterprises. Simple stand-alone e-learning seems quite unrealistic and does not meet the needs of industry. It is very unlikely that employees take a detour to study theory of whatever sort. More likely, they are willing to engage in studies whenever the need derives directly from their practical work. In those cases, they might even be willing to dive into theory. How to dovetail e-learning and enterprise business applications, such that both sides benefit from it?

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics (8)

Applications	e-Learning	Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
e-Business	Enterprise Information Systems	Knowledge-Based Systems
Education/Learning	Human-Computer Interaction

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