PropertiesDennis Schunselaar

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Properties

• A generic way to add information to a formalism• Process Trees• Petri Nets• BPMN• …• Pick your formalism

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Properties

• Dynamic way to encode dynamics/information• Work schedule• Variable values• Costs• Alignment• Compliance• ...• The possibilities are endless

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How do properties exist in a formalism?

• PropertableElement• Independent• Dependent

• For Process Trees, properties are stored in the XML of the formalism elements

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How do properties exist in a formalism?

• PropertableElement• Independent• Dependent

• For Process Trees, properties are stored in the XML of the formalism elements

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Properties in code

Property<K>

High Level Property<K>

List<String>

Double

Costs

List<K>

Variable values

Configurable Property<E>

Configurable High Level Property<E>

List<List<Object>>

Tuples

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Properties of Properties

• Unique ID• Name• Comparator• GUI• Ordering• Default Value• Meaningful types• Dependencies• Import• Export

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McDonald’s Index (List<String>)

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Visualisations for Properties

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Import/Export

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Properties of Configurable Properties

• It is a property• Non Configurable Property• Instantiate• Iterator

• No visualisation yet

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Configurable McDonald’s Index

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Configurations for Configurable Properties

• Not yet complete provided objects• No visualisation• No import/export

• A set of possible values and which of these values can be removed• Configuration (partially) specifies which values are/are

not removed

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More reading

• http://bpmcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/reports/2014/BPM-14-01.pdf