A Language and Methodology based on Scenarios, Grammars and Views, for Administrative Business Processes Modelling

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new language and methodology for modeling administrative business processes, emphasizing modularity, lifecycle, informational, organizational aspects, and actor perceptions, using grammars and views for better clarity and maintenance.

Contribution

It presents a novel process modeling language based on attributed grammars and a methodology tailored for administrative processes, addressing modularity and actor perspectives.

Findings

The language effectively captures process lifecycle, information, and organizational models.

The methodology improves modularity and scalability of process models.

Actor perceptions are integrated through specialized views.

Abstract

In Business Process Management (BPM), process modelling has been solved in various ways. However, there are no commonly accepted modelling tools (languages). Some of them are criticized for their inability to capture both the lifecycle, informational and organizational models of processes. For some others, process modelling is generally done using a single graph; this does not facilitate modularity, maintenance and scalability. In addition, some of these languages are very general; hence, their application to specific domain processes (such as administrative processes) is very complex. In this paper, we present a new language and a new methodology, dedicated to administrative process modelling. This language is based on a variant of attributed grammars and is able to capture the lifecycle, informational and organizational models of such processes. Also, it proposes a simple graphical formalism allowing to model each process's execution scenario as an annotated tree (modularity). In the new language, a particular emphasis is put on modelling (using "views") the perceptions that actors have on processes and their data.