A Semiautomatic Process Model Verification Method based on Process Modeling Guidelines

Valter Helmuth Goldberg Júnior, Lucineia Heloisa Thom, José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira, Marcelo Fantinato, Diego Toralles Avila

2017

Abstract

Designing comprehensible process models is a complex task. Process analysts must rely on the experience of expert systems managers to achieve process models with high comprehensibility, also known as pragmatic quality. In the literature, this is portrayed as process modeling guidelines that help modelers to avoid common issues which hinder the comprehension of the process model. In this paper, we propose a method for the semi-automatic verification of business process models according to process modeling guidelines. This method uses the BPMN Ontology and the ontology editor \textit{Protégé} to assist the modeler with validation of the process model's syntax before verifying its pragmatic quality. The validation of the developed method was applied to a collection of 31 process models and the results show that 23 process models of the collection contain at least one guideline violation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Helmuth Goldberg Júnior V., Thom L., Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira J., Fantinato M. and Toralles Avila D. (2017). A Semiautomatic Process Model Verification Method based on Process Modeling Guidelines . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-249-3, pages 274-281. DOI: 10.5220/0006316602740281

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis17,
author={Valter Helmuth Goldberg Júnior and Lucineia Heloisa Thom and José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira and Marcelo Fantinato and Diego Toralles Avila},
title={A Semiautomatic Process Model Verification Method based on Process Modeling Guidelines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={274-281},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006316602740281},
isbn={978-989-758-249-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A Semiautomatic Process Model Verification Method based on Process Modeling Guidelines
SN - 978-989-758-249-3
AU - Helmuth Goldberg Júnior V.
AU - Thom L.
AU - Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira J.
AU - Fantinato M.
AU - Toralles Avila D.
PY - 2017
SP - 274
EP - 281
DO - 10.5220/0006316602740281