Transforming PICTURE to BPMN 2.0 as Part of the Model-Driven Development of Electronic Government Systems

The support of public administration processes through information systems is a precondition for electronic government projects. Model-driven development is a promising concept to overcome the challenges associated with developing these systems, for example changing requirements, diverse stakeholders and evolving processes. This paper presents a model-to-model transformation between PICTURE, a domain-specific process modeling language for the public administration sector, and BPMN 2.0. The transformation can be part of the model-driven development of electronic government systems. With the building block-based language PICTURE, administration processes can be modeled in a domain-specific way under involvement of all relevant stakeholders. BPMN, as a generic process modeling language, enables the generation of detailed and executable models from PICTURE models. Besides the individual transformation rules, this paper includes an overview of the implementation with Eclipse and QVT Operational.