Visualizing Large Business Process Models: Challenges, Techniques, Applications

Reichert, Manfred (2012) Visualizing Large Business Process Models: Challenges, Techniques, Applications. In: 1st Int'l Workshop on Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TAProViz'12), BPM'12 Workshops (Invited Keynote), 2 September 2012, Tallinn, Estonia.

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Abstract

Large process models may comprise hundreds or thousands of process elements, like activities, gateways, and data objects. Presenting such process models to users and enabling them to interact with these models constitute crucial tasks of any process-aware information systems (PAISs). Existing PAISs, however, neither provide adequate techniques for visualizing and abstracting process models nor for interacting with them. In particular, PAISs do not provide tailored process visualizations as needed in complex application environments. This paper presents examples of large process models and discusses some of the challenges to be tackled when visualizing and abstracting respective models. Further, it presents a comprehensive framework that allows for personalized process model visualizations, which can be tailored to the specific needs of the different user groups. First, process model complexity can be reduced by abstracting the models, i.e., by eliminating or aggregating process elements not relevant in the given visualization context. Second, the appearance of process elements can be customized independent of the process modeling language used. Third, different visualization formats (e.g., process diagrams, process forms, and process trees) are supported. Finally, it will be discussed how tailored visualizations of process models may serve as basis for changing and evolving process models at a high level of abstraction.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2012 19:41
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2013 22:37
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/850

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