Most of nowadays modeling tools for creating business processes in enterprises can be used by IT experts to semi-automatically create corresponding software artifacts of the given process. Unfortunately, these tools comprise a lot of complexity, and therefore, they are not usable by ordinary end users. In this paper, we propose a modeling tool for ad-hoc business processes with a comprehensible and simple user interface that is usable by end users to model their daily life workflows. Afterwards, a fully executable application can be created from the model automatically. Also, we introduce a notion of the so-called “micro-room concept”, which is used as a basis for the abstraction of the modeling tool. The created micro-room framework allows designing peer-to-peer applications based on configurable, shared data rooms. The evaluation and comparison analysis of the modeling tool itself and the underlying micro-room concept have been done by means of usability studies. The preliminary results show that the micro-room concept uses a more comprehensible abstraction compared to other modeling languages. It is well suited for modeling simple collaborative tasks whereas other approaches are better in case of very complex processes. Further, the developed modeling tool is more intuitive than the competing ones due to the simplifications allowed by using the micro-room concept.

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XVSM 微型房间过程建模器

IT专家可以使用当今大多数用于在企业中创建业务流程的建模工具来半自动地创建给定流程的相应软件工件。不幸的是，这些工具包含很多复杂性，因此普通最终用户无法使用它们。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于临时业务流程的建模工具，该工具具有易于理解且简单的用户界面，最终用户可以使用它来模拟他们的日常生活工作流程。之后，可以从模型中自动创建一个完全可执行的应用程序。此外，我们引入了所谓的“微房间概念”的概念，它被用作建模工具抽象的基础。创建的微型房间框架允许基于可配置的共享数据室设计对等应用程序。通过可用性研究对建模工具本身和潜在的微型房间概念进行了评估和比较分析。初步结果表明，与其他建模语言相比，微房间概念使用了更易于理解的抽象。它非常适合对简单的协作任务进行建模，而其他方法在非常复杂的过程中效果更好。此外，由于使用微型房间概念所允许的简化，所开发的建模工具比竞争工具更直观。它非常适合对简单的协作任务进行建模，而其他方法在非常复杂的过程中效果更好。此外，由于使用微型房间概念所允许的简化，所开发的建模工具比竞争工具更直观。它非常适合对简单的协作任务进行建模，而其他方法在非常复杂的过程中效果更好。此外，由于使用微型房间概念所允许的简化，所开发的建模工具比竞争工具更直观。