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Modeling Decision-Intensive Processes with Declarative Business Artifacts

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Modern business processes often need to support knowledge workers that are responsible for making decisions about real-world business entities such as orders and quotes. Such decision-intensive processes are driven by data and require flexibility in their execution. Business artifacts model data and process aspects of business entities in a holistic way and are therefore well-suited to model data-driven processes. Declarative process models support flexible process executions. Therefore, declarative business artifacts are a promising ingredient to support decision-intensive processes. However, there are several challenges that need to be overcome in order to support real-world decision-intensive processes with declarative business artifacts. This position paper discusses key challenges and discusses preliminary solutions to overcome them and turn declarative business artifacts into a mature modeling language for decision-intensive processes.

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Eshuis, R. (2019). Modeling Decision-Intensive Processes with Declarative Business Artifacts. In: Lam, HP., Mistry, S. (eds) Service Research and Innovation. ASSRI ASSRI 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32242-7_1

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