An Artifact-Centric Approach to Generating Web-Based Business Process Driven User Interfaces

Abstract. Workflow-based web applications are important in workflow man-agement systems as they interact with users of business processes. With the Model-driven approach, user interfaces (UIs) of these applications can be par-tially generated based on functional and data requirements obtained from under-lying process models. In traditional activity-centric modelling approaches, data models and relationships between tasks and data are not clearly defined in the process model; thus, it is left to UI modellers to manually identify data re-quirement in generated UIs. We observed that artifact-centric approaches can be applied to address the above problems. However, it brings in challenges to au-tomatically generate UIs due to the declarative manner of describing the processes. In this paper, we propose a model-based automatic UI generation framework with related algorithms for deriving UIs from process models.