DECIDER PRO: Decision-Centric Declarative Process Development

 Unlike procedural processes, knowledge-intensive processes are less structured, and dependent on the decisions and the actions of knowledge workers. Typical knowledge-intensive processes are healthcare processes and clinical pathways. Capturing these processes in a procedural and structured process model fails to provide the required flexibility inherent to the decisions made and the actions performed by the knowledge workers. Declarative process notations, most notably the language CMMN, do provide a degree of flexibility: process elements are loosely coupled by constraints that define what kind of behavior can, must, and must not happen, rather than prescribing the path that must be followed, as is the case in procedural processes. For modeling business decisions, the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard has proven to be suitable both in academia and in industry. However, to capture both the decisiondriven and the declarative nature of knowledge-intensive processes, these two notations need to be consistently integrated. This project will integrate CMMN and DMN for the modelling, the distributed execution of the integrated model, and the mining of such decisioncentric declarative processes. The project includes international collaborations with leading researchers in the field and will apply the methods that will be developed on healthcare processes provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.