Business Process Modeling Approaches and Tools at the Institute for Project Management and Information Modeling (IPIM)

Abstract

Information Modeling has been a core research area in the IS discipline. Furthermore, the design and implementation of information modeling tools is an established and frequently used method to examine artifacts and phenomena. Especially in design-science-research (DSR) the implementation of prototypic modeling tools is often a key success factor for the proof-of-concept and evaluation of artefacts. The Institute for Project Management and Information Modeling (IPIM) focuses on DSR and implementation of modeling prototypes, e.g. the SenSoMod-Modeler or an adaptive BPMN modeling tool. SenSoMod is a domain-aware modeling language, which enables to model the data origin and aggregation of context as input for mobile context-sensitive business processes. The BPMN modeling tool enables the modeling of adaptive process models including all variants of a process. The tool also enables the extraction of a concrete variant from the adaptive model using parameters. At the exhibition both concepts and tools will be presented.