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This wiki provides an overview of the general characteristics of fragment-based Case Management (fCM) and lists concrete guidelines that support and simplify modeling with this approach. For a given business process, these characteristics allow designers to first check whether fCM is a suitable modeling language for the process. If this is the case, the guidelines provide assistance for modeling in the form of suggestions. Furthermore, they can be used as a basis for a modeling tool and can be checked automatically. The guidelines thus summarize what constitutes a correct fCM model.
You can find the guidelines and characteristics on the right, each being explained on a separate wiki page.
Modeling business processes can be essentially simplified by so-called guidelines. Formulated as simple suggestions, they support the designer especially in terms of consistency and integrity of the process model [Avila et al. 2020] while focusing on high quality of the model [Moreno-Montes de Oca and Snoeck, 2014]. There are several approaches to defining guidelines. Independent of modeling languages, Mendling et al. [Mendling et al., 2010] provide seven general guidelines to improve "the quality of [process] models, in the sense that these are likely (1) to become comprehensible to various stakeholders and (2) to contain few syntactical errors." In contrast, [Moreno-Montes de Oca and Snoeck, 2014] first identify problems encountered in BPMN models, which then lead to guidelines and recommendations, and Avila et al. [Avila et al. 2020] provide a more comprehensive list of guidelines for BPMN modeling based on a systematic literature review. [Corradini et al.] introduce a very structured approach and define a guideline by an ID, a name, an example and references. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the necessity of guidelines with regard to an automated verification of models with the help of a tool.
With regard to fCM, such guidelines are missing. Although several works describe the way of modeling [Hewelt and Weske, 2016; Haarmann, 2020], a compact and practicable overview of guidelines is missing. Our work provides such an overview, which serves as foundation for the design support tool that we are developing.
[Avila et al. 2020] Avila, D. T., dos Santos, R. I., Mendling, J., & Thom, L. H. (2020). A systematic literature review of process modeling guidelines and their empirical support. Business Process Management Journal.
[Corradini et al., 2018] Corradini, F., Ferrari, A., Fornari, F., Gnesi, S., Polini, A., Re, B., & Spagnolo, G. O. (2018). A guidelines framework for understandable BPMN models. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 113, 129-154.
[Haarmann, 2020] Haarmann, S. (2020). Fragment-Based Case Management Models: Metamodel, Consistency, and Correctness. Central-European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS 2020), 1, 1.
[Hewelt et al., 2018] Hewelt, M., Wolff, F., Mandal, S., Pufahl, L., & Weske, M. (2018). Towards a methodology for case model elicitation. In Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (pp. 181-195). Springer, Cham.
[Hewelt and Weske, 2016] Hewelt, M., & Weske, M. (2016, September). A hybrid approach for flexible case modeling and execution. In International Conference on Business Process Management (pp. 38-54). Springer, Cham.
[Mendling et al., 2010] Mendling, J., Reijers, H. A., & van der Aalst, W. M. (2010). Seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG). Information and Software Technology, 52(2), 127-136.
[Moreno-Montes de Oca and Snoeck, 2014] Moreno-Montes de Oca, I., & Snoeck, M. (2014). Pragmatic guidelines for business process modeling. Available at SSRN 2592983.