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Extending the UML 2 Activity Diagram with Business Process Goals and Performance Measures and the Mapping to BPEL

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The UML 2 Activity Diagram is designed for modelling business processes, but does not yet include any concepts for modelling process goals and their measures. We extend the UML 2 Activity Diagram with process goals and performance measures to make them conceptually visible. Additionally, we provide a mapping to BPEL to make the measures available for execution and monitoring. This profile and its mapping are tested with an example business process.

This research has been funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture, and the European Social Fund (ESF) under grant 31.963/46-VII/9/2002.

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  1. Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology,  

    Birgit Korherr & Beate List

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    John F. Roddick

  2. iSOCO, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

  3. CEDRIC-CNAM, France

    Samira Si-said Cherfi

  4. University of Cincinnati, USA

    Roger Chiang

  5. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

    Ramez A. Elmasri

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. Drexel University, USA

    Hyoil Han

  9. E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

    Martin Hepp

  10. University of Patras, Argolidos 40-42, 153-44, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  11. University of Manitoba, Canada

    Vojislav B. Mišić

  12. Ghent University, Belgium

    Geert Poels

  13. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  14. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  15. EPFL, Switzerland

    Christelle Vangenot

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Korherr, B., List, B. (2006). Extending the UML 2 Activity Diagram with Business Process Goals and Performance Measures and the Mapping to BPEL. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_4

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