Spreadsheet-Based Business Process Modeling

Abstract

Business Process models help to visualize processes of an organization. In enterprises, these processes are often specified in internal regulations, resolutions or other law acts of a company. Such descriptions, like task lists, have mostly form of enumerated lists or spreadsheets. We present a method how to generate a BPMN process model from a spreadsheet-based representation. In contrast to the existing approaches, our method does not require explicit specification of gateways in the spreadsheet, but it takes advantage of nested list form.