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Object Oriented Petri Nets in Business Process Modeling

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Business Process Management

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Business systems have to adapt to changing requirements coming from their environment. The rate is continuously increasing and leads to massive use of computer based systems. To specify the systems in a way that allows for adaptability and exibility adequate techniques are necessary.

The disadvantages using traditional modeling techniques are partially overcome by Business Process Petri nets (BPP-nets) which are informally introduced in this contribution. The key concepts are an object oriented structure of the net models, allowing to partition the model according to an application and also to follow a process centered approach. Workflows within the system can be modeled in separate objects and thus allow the dynamic adaptation of the system if the environment requires a behavioral change.

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  1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, D-22527, Hamburg

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  1. Faculty of Technology and Management, Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil van der Aalst

  2. Mathematisch-Geographische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Informatik, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Ostenstraße 28, 85072, Eichstätt, Germany

    Jörg Desel

  3. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Postfach 111932, 60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andreas Oberweis

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Moldt, D., Valk, R. (2000). Object Oriented Petri Nets in Business Process Modeling. In: van der Aalst, W., Desel, J., Oberweis, A. (eds) Business Process Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45594-9_16

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