TY - GEN
T1 - Visual modeling of instance-spanning constraints in process-aware information systems
AU - Gall, Manuel
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Instance-Spanning Constraints (ISCs) have raised attention just recently although they are omnipresent in practice to define conditions across multiple instances or processes, e.g., bundling of cargo. It would be crucial to convey ISC information on, e.g., shared instance resources to users. However, no approach for visualizing ISCs has been presented yet. To overcome this gap we analysed literature and derived visualization requirements for constraints on multiple instances of the same or different processes. The proposed language ISC_Viz is based on BPMN-Q and incorporates existing visual notations to reduce the cognitive load on the user. The applicability of ISC_Viz is shown along 114 ISC modeling examples. Moreover, a questionnaire-based study with 42 participants is conducted in order to assess the usability of ISC_Viz.
AB - Instance-Spanning Constraints (ISCs) have raised attention just recently although they are omnipresent in practice to define conditions across multiple instances or processes, e.g., bundling of cargo. It would be crucial to convey ISC information on, e.g., shared instance resources to users. However, no approach for visualizing ISCs has been presented yet. To overcome this gap we analysed literature and derived visualization requirements for constraints on multiple instances of the same or different processes. The proposed language ISC_Viz is based on BPMN-Q and incorporates existing visual notations to reduce the cognitive load on the user. The applicability of ISC_Viz is shown along 114 ISC modeling examples. Moreover, a questionnaire-based study with 42 participants is conducted in order to assess the usability of ISC_Viz.
KW - Compliance
KW - Constraint visualization
KW - Instance-spanning constraints
KW - Process-aware information systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021207823&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-59536-8_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-59536-8_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85021207823
SN - 9783319595351
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 597
EP - 611
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 29th International Conference, CAiSE 2017
A2 - Dubois, Eric
A2 - Pohl, Klaus
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Forum and Doctoral Consortium Papers Presented at the 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE-Forum-DC 2017
Y2 - 12 June 2017 through 16 June 2017
ER -