TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bazhenova, Ekaterina
A1  - Zerbato, Francesca
A1  - Oliboni, Barbara
A1  - Weske, Mathias
T1  - From BPMN process models to DMN decision models
JF  - Information systems
N2  - The interplay between process and decision models plays a crucial role in business process management, as decisions may be based on running processes and affect process outcomes. Often process models include decisions that are encoded through process control flow structures and data flow elements, thus reducing process model maintainability. The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) was proposed to achieve separation of concerns and to possibly complement the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for designing decisions related to process models. Nevertheless, deriving decision models from process models remains challenging, especially when the same data underlie both process and decision models. In this paper, we explore how and to which extent the data modeled in BPMN processes and used for decision-making may be represented in the corresponding DMN decision models. To this end, we identify a set of patterns that capture possible representations of data in BPMN processes and that can be used to guide the derivation of decision models related to existing process models. Throughout the paper we refer to real-world healthcare processes to show the applicability of the proposed approach. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Business process models
KW  - Decision models
KW  - BPMN
KW  - DMN
KW  - Pattern
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2019.02.001
SN  - 0306-4379
SN  - 1873-6076
VL  - 83
SP  - 69
EP  - 88
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Bazhenova, Ekaterina
A1  - Zerbato, Francesca
A1  - Weske, Mathias
T1  - Data-Centric Extraction of DMN Decision Models from BPMN Process Models
T2  - Business Process Management Workshops
N2  - Operational decisions in business processes can be modeled by using the Decision Model and Notation (DMN). The complementary use of DMN for decision modeling and of the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for process design realizes the separation of concerns principle. For supporting separation of concerns during the design phase, it is crucial to understand which aspects of decision-making enclosed in a process model should be captured by a dedicated decision model. Whereas existing work focuses on the extraction of decision models from process control flow, the connection of process-related data and decision models is still unexplored. In this paper, we investigate how process-related data used for making decisions can be represented in process models and we distinguish a set of BPMN patterns capturing such information. Then, we provide a formal mapping of the identified BPMN patterns to corresponding DMN models and apply our approach to a real-world healthcare process.
KW  - Business process models
KW  - Process-related data
KW  - Decision models
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-74030-0
SN  - 978-3-319-74029-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74030-0_43
SN  - 1865-1348
VL  - 308
SP  - 542
EP  - 555
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -