Modelling and Execution of Data-Driven Processes with JSON-Nets

Modern business environments are governed by a wide range of data in various data formats. Despite the importance of integrating the data and control-flow perspective, existing business process modelling languages have only limited capability to precisely describe data-driven processes. In this paper, we propose a new approach called JSON-Nets, a variant of high-level Petri nets, that utilizes JSON technologies to integrate complex data objects in executable process models. We introduce JSON-Nets using an illustrative example and provide a formal specification, as well as a prototypical implementation of a modelling tool to evaluate our conception.