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Business Process Modeling Notation

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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BPMN

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The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a graphical notation for drawing business processes. It is proposed as a standard notation for drawing models understandable by different business users. BPMN aims to bridge the communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation. The language is similar to other informal notations such as UML activity diagrams and extended event-driven process chains.

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BPMN was initially developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI). It is now being maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG) who released a “Final Adopted Specification” in 2006 [3]. The intent of BPMN is to standardize a business process modeling notation in the face of many different modeling notations and viewpoints.

A model expressed in terms of BPMN is called a Business Process Diagram (BPD). A BPD is essentially a flowchart composed of different elements. There are four basic categories of...

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  1. Weske M. Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2007.

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  2. White S. Using BPMN to model a BPEL process. BPTrends, 3(3):1–18, March 2005.

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  3. White S.A. et al. Business Process Modeling Notation Specification (Version 1.0, OMG Final Adopted Specification), 2006.

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  4. Wohed P., van der Aalst W.W.P., Dumas M., ter Hofstede A.H.M., and Russell N. On the Suitability of BPMN for Business Process Modelling. In Proc. Int. Conf. Business Process Management 2006, pp. 161–176.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    W. M. P. van der Aalst

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  1. W. M. P. van der Aalst
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2009). Business Process Modeling Notation. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1195

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