A Novel Framework for Visualizing Declarative Process Models

The declarative approach to business process modeling has been introduced to deal with the issue of managing flexible processes. Instead of explicitly representing all the allowed enactments of a process, the approach describes the constraints that limit its behavior. However, current graphical notations for declarative processes are prone to be difficult to understand, thus hampering a widespread usage of the approach. To overcome this issue, we present a novel notation framework for visualizing declarative processes, which is devised in compliance with well-known notation design principles.