@inproceedings{93bd32a09f3c4e9998705d39712950d4,
title = "Structured behavioral programming idioms",
abstract = "Behavioral Programming (BP) is a modelling and programming technique proposed for specifying and for implementing complex reactive systems. While effective, we report on a weakness that stems from the verbosity and from the complexity of the programming constructs in BP. Our analysis, described in this paper, shows that developers who work with BP use specific patterns that allow them to control the complexity of their specification. Thus, the main contribution of this paper is a set of specification constructs that represent those patterns. We report on the design of the new idioms, termed structured constructs for behavioral programming and on an empirical evaluation in a controlled experiment that proved their effectiveness. In particular, the experiment examined the comprehensibility differences between behavioral specifications with non-structured BP programming idioms and with the structured ones. The results indicate that the new structures improve the comprehension of the behavioral specification.",
keywords = "Abstraction, Behavioral modeling, Behavioral programming, Behavioral specification, Comprehension, Experimentation",
author = "Adiel Ashrov and Michal Gordon and Assaf Marron and Sturm Arnon and Gera Weiss",
note = "Funding Information: This research was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation, the Philip M. Klutznick Research Fund, and the Dora Joachimowicz research grant. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 18th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2017 and 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2017 held at Conference on Advanced Informa... ; Conference date: 12-06-2017 Through 13-06-2017",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-59466-8\_20",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9783319594651",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "319--333",
editor = "Jens Gulden and Selmin Nurcan and Iris Reinhartz-Berger and Palash Bera and Wided Guedria",
booktitle = "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 18th International Conference, BPMDS 2017, 22nd International Conference, EMMSAD 2017 Held at CAiSE 2017, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}