VERTO: a visual notation for declarative process models

TL;DR: This paper introduces a novel visual declarative notation targeted to a more understandable modeling ofdeclarative processes, and affects widespread usage of such notations by increasing the dependency on experts to understand their semantics.

Abstract: Declarative approaches to business process modeling allow to represent loosely-structured (declarative) processes in flexible scenarios as a set of constraints on the allowed flow of activities. However, current graphical notations for declarative processes are difficult to interpret. As a consequence, this has affected widespread usage of such notations, by increasing the dependency on experts to understand their semantics. In this paper, we tackle this issue by introducing a novel visual declarative notation targeted to a more understandable modeling of declarative processes.