GREAT Process Modeller user manual

TL;DR

The paper provides a user manual for GREAT Process Modeller, a tool supporting communication-oriented business process modeling through communicative event diagrams and automatic class diagram generation.

Contribution

It introduces a practical tool that implements Communication Analysis techniques for business process modeling and data model generation.

Findings

Supports creation of communicative event diagrams

Automates generation of class diagrams from models

Facilitates communication-oriented business process design

Abstract

This report contains instructions to install, uninstall and use GREAT Process Modeller, a tool that supports Communication Analysis, a communication-oriented business process modelling method. GREAT allows creating communicative event diagrams (i.e. business process models), specifying message structures (which describe the messages associated to each communicative event), and automatically generating a class diagram (representing the data model of an information system that would support such organisational communication). This report briefly describes the methodological background of the tool. This handbook explains the modelling techniques in detail: Espa\~na, S., A. Gonz\'alez, \'O. Pastor and M. Ruiz (2012). Communication Analysis modelling techniques. Technical report ProS-TR-2012-02, PROS Research Centre, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Val\`encia, Spain, arXiv:1205.0987.