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A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language

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

Published in: Conceptual Modeling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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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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Title: A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language
Authors: Maxim Vidgof
Philipp Waibel
Jan Mendling
Martin Schimak
Alexander Seik
Peter Queteschiner
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Conceptual Modeling
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-62521-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-62522-1

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1_13

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