Declarative Modeling–An Academic Dream or the Future for BPM?

Hajo Reijers, Tijs Slaats, Christian Stahl

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Abstract

Declarative modeling has attracted much attention over the last years, resulting in the development of several academic declarative modeling techniques and tools. The absence of empirical evaluations on their use and usefulness, however, raises the question whether practitioners are attracted to using those techniques. In this paper, we present a study on what practitioners think of declarative modeling. We show that the practitioners we involved in this study are receptive to the idea of a hybrid approach combining imperative and declarative techniques, rather than making a full shift from the imperative to the declarative paradigm. Moreover, we report on requirements, use cases, limitations, and tool support of such a hybrid approach. Based on the gained insight, we propose a research agenda for the development of this novel modeling approach.
Original languageEnglish
Book seriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume8094
Pages (from-to)307-322
Number of pages16
ISSN0302-9743
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventInternational Conference on Business Process Management - Xijiao Hotel, Beijing, China
Duration: 26 Aug 201330 Aug 2013
Conference number: 11
http://bpm2013.tsinghua.edu.cn/

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Business Process Management
Number11
LocationXijiao Hotel
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period26/08/201330/08/2013
Internet address

Keywords

  • Declarative Modeling
  • Imperative Paradigm
  • Hybrid Modeling Approach
  • Empirical Evaluation
  • Practitioner Perspective

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