We define an extensible semantical framework for business process modeling notations. Since our definition starts from scratch, it helps to faithfully link the understanding of business processes by analysts and operators, on the process design and management side, by IT technologists and programmers, on the implementation side, and by users, on the application side. We illustrate the framework...

Standardisation of languages in the field of business process management has long been an elusive goal. Recently though, consensus has built around one process implementation language, namely BPEL, and two fundamentally similar process modelling notations, namely UML Activity Diagram (UML AD) and BPMN. This paper presents a technique for generating BPEL code from process models expressed in a c...

We define an extensible semantical framework for business process modeling notations. Since our definition starts from scratch, it helps to faithfully link the understanding of business processes by analysts and operators, on the process design and management side, by IT technologists and programmers, on the implementation side, and by users, on the application side. We illustrate the framework...

In this paper an evaluation of BPMN is presented, using the Workflow Patterns as an analysis framework. The analysis provided for BPMN is part of a larger effort aiming at an unbiased and vendor-independent survey of the expressive power of some mainstream modelling languages for process-aware information systems. It is a sequel to an analysis series where languages like BPEL and UML 2.0 A.D we...

We describe a relative-timed semantic model for Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). We define the semantics in the language of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). This model augments our untimed model by introducing the notion of relative time in the form of delays chosen non-deterministically from a range. We illustrate the application by an example. We also show some properties ...

Abstract: With the growing role business processes play in today’s business life, they are being seen as an asset for the organization. With hundreds of process models developed by different process designers it would be helpful to look up the repository for models that could handle a similar situation before developing new ones. In this paper we introduce a new visual query language for busine...

During the years of prosperity, numerous organizations neglected numerous aspects of risk management. As systematic approach to handling identified risks is crucial to achieving success by the organization, modern business modeling standards and techniques are supposed to take risk-related features into account. The article is devoted to elaborating and exemplifying an extension aimed at risk h...

This research-in-progress paper proposes the need for a move towards more meaningful variability of visual notations. Evidence accumulated via an online survey on the requirements practitioners have for visual notations, indicate the need for variability of a modeling languages visual notation. Widely used modeling languages in practice such as UML and BPMN do not support redesign of the visual...

The design of business processes involves the usage of modeling languages, tools and methodologies. In this paper we highlight and address a relevant limitation of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN): its weak data representation capabilities. In particular, we extend it with data-specific constructs derived from existing data modeling notations and adapted to blend gracefully into BP...

This paper investigates the problem of dynamic reconfiguration by means of a workflow-based case study used for discussion. We state the requirements on a system implementing the workflow and its reconfiguration, and we describe the system’s design in BPMN. WS-BPEL, a language that would not naturally support dynamic change, is used as a target for implementation. The WS-BPEL recovery framework...