A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language

Maxim Vidgof; Philipp Waibel; Jan Mendling; Martin Schimak; Alexander Seik; Peter Queteschiner

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1\_13

A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language

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

Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management (AE Sabou)

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conceptual Modeling - 39th International Conference, ER 2020, Vienna, Austria, November 3-6, 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Gillian Dobbie and Ulrich Frank and Gerti Kappel and Stephen W. Liddle and Heinrich C. Mayr
Place of Publication	Vienna
Publisher	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages	174 - 188
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-62522-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1\_13
Publication status	Published - 2020

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

211101 Iron and steel metallurgy
102022 Software development
102
102015 Information systems
502050 Business informatics
502

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Vidgof, M., Waibel, P., Mendling, J., Schimak, M., Seik, A., & Queteschiner, P. (2020). A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language. In Gillian Dobbie and Ulrich Frank and Gerti Kappel and Stephen W. Liddle and Heinrich C. Mayr (Ed.), Conceptual Modeling - 39th International Conference, ER 2020, Vienna, Austria, November 3-6, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 174 - 188). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1\_13

Vidgof, Maxim ; Waibel, Philipp ; Mendling, Jan et al. / A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language. Conceptual Modeling - 39th International Conference, ER 2020, Vienna, Austria, November 3-6, 2020, Proceedings. editor / Gillian Dobbie and Ulrich Frank and Gerti Kappel and Stephen W. Liddle and Heinrich C. Mayr. Vienna : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020. pp. 174 - 188

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Vidgof M, Waibel P, Mendling J, Schimak M, Seik A, Queteschiner P. A Code-Efficient Process Scripting Language. In Gillian Dobbie and Ulrich Frank and Gerti Kappel and Stephen W. Liddle and Heinrich C. Mayr, editor, Conceptual Modeling - 39th International Conference, ER 2020, Vienna, Austria, November 3-6, 2020, Proceedings. Vienna: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2020. p. 174 - 188 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1\_13

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