Authors:
Lucinéia Heloisa Thom
1
;
Jean Michel Lau
1
;
Cirano Iochpe
2
and
Jan Mendling
3
Affiliations:
1
Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
;
2
Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Information and Communication Technology Company of Porto Alegre, Brazil
;
3
Institute of Information Systems and New Media, Vienna University of Economics, Austria
Keyword(s):
Business process modeling, workflow patterns, event driven process chains, reuse.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
CASE Tools for System Development
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
For their reuse advantages, workflow patterns are increasingly attracting the interest of both researchers and vendors. However, actual workflow modeling tools do not provide functionalities that enable users to define, query, and reuse workflow patterns properly. In this paper we gather a set of requirements for process modeling tools that aim to support pattern reuse in a direct way. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of these requirements we present a respective implementation project that extends the process modeling tool EPC Tools with pattern reuse functionality.