Querying Business Process Models with VMQL

Harald Störrle; Vlad Acretoaie

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Querying Business Process Models with VMQL

Harald Störrle, Vlad Acretoaie

Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Abstract

The Visual Model Query Language (VMQL) has been invented with the objectives (1) to make it easier for modelers to query models effectively, and (2) to be universally applicable to all modeling languages. In previous work, we have applied VMQL to UML, and validated the first of these two claims. In this paper, we apply VMQL to the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to evaluate the second claim. We explore the adaptations required, and re-evaluate the usability of VMQL in this context. We find similar results to earlier work, thus both supporting our claims and establishing the usability of VMQL beyond the realm of UML.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual International Workshop on Behaviour Modelling - Foundations and Applications
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2013
Article number	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-1989-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2492437.2492441
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	The 5th Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Applications - Montpellier, France Duration: 2 Jul 2013 → 2 Jul 2013

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Conference	The 5th Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Applications
Country/Territory	France
City	Montpellier
Period	02/07/2013 → 02/07/2013

Keywords

Model Querying
VMQL
BPMN
OCL
UML
Model Repositories

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Störrle, H & Acretoaie, V 2013, Querying Business Process Models with VMQL. in Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual International Workshop on Behaviour Modelling - Foundations and Applications., 4, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, The 5th Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Applications , Montpellier, France, 02/07/2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2492437.2492441

Querying Business Process Models with VMQL. / Störrle, Harald; Acretoaie, Vlad.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual International Workshop on Behaviour Modelling - Foundations and Applications. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. 4.

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