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A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language

verfasst von : Maxim Vidgof, Philipp Waibel, Jan Mendling, Martin Schimak, Alexander Seik, Peter Queteschiner

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Business process management systems are an important piece of infrastructure for digital transformation initiatives. Rapid development of executable business processes is a key requirement in this context. Even though there are various process modeling languages available, none of them is designed with the ambition to be code efficient and expressive at the same time. In this paper, we investigated the research question how a process scripting language can be defined that addresses the four requirements of code efficiency, control flow expressiveness, data processing and event processing. To this end, we designed and implemented a process scripting language based on Kotlin. To analyze the language regarding the four requirements, we use the language in a case study of a real-world process of our industry partner.

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Metadaten
Titel
A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language
verfasst von
Maxim Vidgof
Philipp Waibel
Jan Mendling
Martin Schimak
Alexander Seik
Peter Queteschiner
Copyright-Jahr
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1_13