A New Notational Framework for Declarative Process Modeling

Abstract In order to capture flexible scenarios, a declarative approach to business process modeling describes constraints that limit a process' behavior instead of specifying all its allowed enactments. However, current graphical notations for declarative processes are tough to understand, thus hampering a widespread usage of the approach. To overcome this issue, we present a novel notational framework for representing declarative processes, devised in compliance with well-known notation design principles

VERTO: a visual notation for declarative process models

Declarative approaches to business process modeling allow to represent loosely-structured (declarative) processes in flexible scenarios as a set of constraints on the allowed flow of activities. However, current graphical notations for declarative processes are difficult to interpret. As a consequence, this has affected widespread usage of such notations, by increasing the dependency on experts to understand their semantics. In this paper, we tackle this issue by introducing a novel visual declarative notation targeted to a more understandable modeling of declarative processes

A new notational framework for declarative process modeling

In order to capture flexible scenarios, a declarative approach to business process modeling describes constraints that limit a process' behavior instead of specifying all its allowed enactments. However, current graphical notations for declarative processes are tough to understand, thus hampering a widespread usage of the approach. To overcome this issue, we present a novel notational framework for representing declarative processes, devised in compliance with well-known notation design principles