The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back

Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta; Thomas Hildebrandt; Søren Debois; Morten Marquard

The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back

Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta
, Thomas Hildebrandt
, Søren Debois
, Morten Marquard

Programming Logic and Semantics

DCR Solutions

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Abstract

The adoption of formal models by process specialists has faced two challenges: First, it requires process specialists to get training in formal modeling. Second, the resulting specifications bear little resemblance wrt. the original descriptions. We introduce a tool that supports translations between natural language descriptions and declarative process models. The resulting models are given in a graphical formalism, DCR Graphs. Traceability is at the core of the tool: Later changes in the process model due to, eg, ambiguity resolution are traced back into the text. This allows users to either correct and complete their descriptions, or to derive models more refined than the text. In this paper, we describe the mechanics of the tool and provide examples of its use. Finally, we report on experiences using the tool in a Danish Municipal government.

Original language	English
Conference proceedings	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages (from-to)	66-70
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1613-0073
Publication status	Published - 10 Sept 2018

Keywords

Process highlighter
Process Models
Business Process Management
Digitalization

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The Process Highlighter: From Texts to Declarative Processes and Back
López-Acosta, H.-A., Hildebrandt, T., Debois, S. & Marquard, M., 28 Sept 2018, TR-2018-204 ed. Copenhagen: IT-Universitetet i København. 19 p. (IT University Technical Report Series; No. TR-2018-204).
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EcoKnow: Effective, co-created & compliant adaptive case management for knowledge workers
Hildebrandt, T. (PI), Debois, S. (CoI), Christensen, L. R. (CoI), Cohn, M. (CoI), Faithfull, A. (CoI), Petersen, A. C. M. (CoI), Madsen, F. (CoI) & Mbabazi, P. N. (CoI)
Innovation Fund Denmark
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Research

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