G u id a n c e [ D S .G u i] KobrA 2000 UML ADs + + + + + ± C-EPCs 2003 C-iEPCs + + + + + + + + + + + + Configurative Process Modeling 2004 EPCs + + ± + + + ± + + ± PESOA 2005 BPMN, UML ADs + ± + + + ± ± + Superimposed Variants 2005 UML ADs + + + ± + + + Configurable Workflows 2006 C-YAWL, C-SAP, C-BPEL + + + + + + + + + + + Ciuksys & Caplinskas 2006 UML ADs + ± + + ADOM 2007 UML ADs, EPCs, BPM...

Current initiatives in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) strive for the development of a BPM standard notation by pushing the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). However, such a proposed standard notation needs to be carefully examined. Ontological analysis is an established theoretical approach to evaluating modelling techniques. This paper reports on the outcomes of an ont...

The increased interest in a more disciplined approach for Business Process Management has motivated many organizations to make significant investments in process modelling initiatives. This, in turn, has triggered significant related research. One outcome of this development is the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which has been proposed as the new process modelling industry standard....

In recent years numerous extensions and adaptations of the BPMN evolved, since model users aim to both exploit the benefits of the modeling standard and adapt BPMN to particular domain peculiarities or project requirements. Methodical support for conducting such adaptations is generally rare and very focused on the abstract syntax, which is actually insufficient, since particular semantics are ...

This work provides support to the modeling and execution of the Resource Perspective of Business Processes with BPMN and BPEL. It is based on an extension developed to BPMN 2.0 in order to define and visualize the Resource Structure, Work Distribution and Authorization aspects of this perspective. This work proposes a mapping of extended BPMN process models to BPEL processes applying the BPEL4P...

Capturing the interaction behavior between two or more business parties has major importance in the context of business-tobusiness (B2B) process integration. The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), being the de-facto standard for modeling intra-organizational processes, also includes capabilities for describing cross-organizational collaboration. However, as this paper will show, BPMN fa...

The nature of healthcare processes in a multidisciplinary hospital is inherently complex. In this paper, we identify particular problems of modeling healthcare processes with the de-facto standard process modeling language BPMN. We discuss all possibilities of BPMN adressing these problems. Where plain BPMN fails to produce nice and easily comprehensible results, we propose a new approach: Enco...

Business processes are usually defined by business experts who require intuitive and informal graphical notations such as BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) for documenting and communicating their organization activities and behavior. However, BPMN has not been provided with a formal semantics, which limits the analysis of BPMN models to using solely informal techniques such as simulat...

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has been widely used as a tool for business process modeling. However, BPMN suffers from a lack of standard formal semantics. This weakness can lead to inconsistencies, ambiguities, and incompletenesses within the developed models. In this paper, we propose a formal semantics of BPMN using recursive ECATNets. Owing to this formalism, a large set of ...

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard version 2.0 informally defines a precise execution semantics. This paper defines that execution semantics formally, by defining the execution rules as graph rewrite rules. The paper shows that the formal definition of execution rules in this manner is intuitive and simple, in particular because they can be specified graphically, using the ...