BPMN offers a rich pool of language constructs to model different aspects of choreographies, interorganizational business processes and service compositions. With collaborations and choreographies, BPMN enables the modeler concentrate on the control flow and the message flow, respectively. At the same time, data flow is only treated as a subordinate extension. In contrast, recent artifact-centr...

An alignment of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) promises seamless integration of process documentation and executable process definitions. Thus, a lot of research has been conducted on a mapping from BPMN to BPEL. The other perspective of this alignment, i.e. a BPEL-to-BPMN mapping, was largely neglected. This paper presents a co...

The widespread use of BPMN to describe business processes is highlighting the need to integrate the description of the operational flow with domain specific information. In most cases the domain knowledge is already represented in domain ontologies or can be derived from the existing documentation. To preserve the simplicity of the original BPMN model specifications our approach is to integrate...

In this paper, a rule based approach is presented to translate Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) based a business process models into Semantics of Business Vocabulary based Rules (SBVR) based business rules. Such translation can simplify the process of understanding the information represented in BPMN models for the business stakeholders as information represented in business rules is easy...

We describe the application of the Business Process Modeling Notation to the redesign of a service management process in a truck dealership in the N.E. US. After the deployment of a new service management system did not lead to the expected efficiency gains the authors were asked to analyze the as-is service process, make suggestions for improvement, and simulate the financial impact of the pro...

Currently many different modeling languages are used for workflow definitions in BPM systems. Authors of this paper analyze the two most popular graphical languages, with highest possibility of wide practical usage UML Activity diagrams (AD) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The necessary in practice workflow aspects are briefly discussed, and on this basis a natural AD profile is ...

Previously we provided two formal behavioural semantics for Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) in the process algebra CSP. By exploiting CSP’s refinement orderings, developers may formally compare their BPMN models. However, BPMN is not a specification language, and it is difficult and sometimes impossible to construct behavioural properties against which BPMN models may be verified. Th...

TOSCA is an upcoming standard to capture cloud application topologies and their management in a portable way. Management aspects include provisioning, operation and deprovisioning of an application. Management plans capture these aspects in workflows. BPMN 2.0 as general-purpose language can be used to model these workflows. There is, however, no tailored support for management plans in BPMN. T...