Enriching business processes with rules using the oryx BPMN editor

  • Authors:
  • Krzysztof Kluza;Krzysztof Kaczor;Grzegorz J. Nalepa

  • Affiliations:
  • AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland;AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland;AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

  • Venue:
  • ICAISC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

BPMN is a leading visual notation for modeling Business Processes. Although it can be efficiently used for modeling workflow structures, it is not suitable for modeling the low-level logic of particular tasks in the process. Recently, Business Rules have been used for this purpose. Such rules are often specified in natural language and in an informal way. In this paper, we consider an approach to the integration of Business Processes with Business Rules. As a proof of concept, we propose a framework based on the Oryx BPMN editor integrated with rule-based tools. The goal of the integration of the BPMN editor with the XTT2 rule framework is to provide an environment for visual modeling processes with formally described business rules. We also discuss execution options of the integrated model. In the future, this opens up a possibility to execute such models using the HeaRT rule engine.