Declarative modeling–an academic dream or the future for BPM?

TY - CHAP

T1 - Declarative modeling–an academic dream or the future for BPM?

AU - Reijers, Hajo A.

AU - Slaats, Tijs

AU - Stahl, Christian

N1 - Conference code: 11

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Declarative modeling has attracted much attention over the last years, resulting in the development of several academic declarative modeling techniques and tools. The absence of empirical evaluations on their use and usefulness, however, raises the question whether practitioners are attracted to using those techniques. In this paper, we present a study on what practitioners think of declarative modeling. We show that the practitioners we involved in this study are receptive to the idea of a hybrid approach combining imperative and declarative techniques, rather than making a full shift from the imperative to the declarative paradigm. Moreover, we report on requirements, use cases, limitations, and tool support of such a hybrid approach. Based on the gained insight, we propose a research agenda for the development of this novel modeling approach.

AB - Declarative modeling has attracted much attention over the last years, resulting in the development of several academic declarative modeling techniques and tools. The absence of empirical evaluations on their use and usefulness, however, raises the question whether practitioners are attracted to using those techniques. In this paper, we present a study on what practitioners think of declarative modeling. We show that the practitioners we involved in this study are receptive to the idea of a hybrid approach combining imperative and declarative techniques, rather than making a full shift from the imperative to the declarative paradigm. Moreover, we report on requirements, use cases, limitations, and tool support of such a hybrid approach. Based on the gained insight, we propose a research agenda for the development of this novel modeling approach.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40176-3_26

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40176-3_26

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-642-40175-6

T3 - Lecture notes in computer science

SP - 307

EP - 322

BT - Business Process Management

A2 - Daniel, Florian

A2 - Wang, Jianmin

A2 - Weber, Barbara

PB - Springer

T2 - 11th International Conference on Business Process Management

Y2 - 26 August 2013 through 30 August 2013

ER -