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Dealing with Structural Differences in Serialized BPMN Models

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2019, EMMSAD 2019)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 352))

Abstract

The paper presents an approach to robust extraction of specific concepts from differently serialized BPMN models. Based on empirically identified structural differences in XSD-serialized BPMN models, we propose a rule-based approach to overcome such problems. The implemented extractor has been applied to several differently serialized BPMN models. The experimental results show that the proposed approach and implemented extractor enable robust extraction from differently serialized BPMN models with very high completeness and precision.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Business Model Representation Language.

  2. 2.

    Available at: http://m-lab.etf.unibl.org:8080/generator/.

  3. 3.

    XML Metadata Interchange.

  4. 4.

    http://www.eclipse.org/acceleo/.

  5. 5.

    XML Schema Definition.

  6. 6.

    Web Services Business Process Execution Language.

  7. 7.

    Meta-Object Facility [16].

  8. 8.

    eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [17].

  9. 9.

    Diagram Interchange.

  10. 10.

    Diagram Common.

  11. 11.

    Diagram Definition.

  12. 12.

    BPMN Model Interchange Work Group (http://www.omgwiki.org/bpmn-miwg/).

  13. 13.

    BPMN MIWG tools (https://github.com/bpmn-miwg/bpmn-miwg-tools).

  14. 14.

    XML Path Language [20].

  15. 15.

    The system with the integrated robust BPMN extractor is available at: http://m-lab.etf.unibl.org:8080/amadeos_test/.

  16. 16.

    All source BPMs and the corresponding CDMs are available at: https://gitlab.com/F3real1/robustbpmnextractor.

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Brdjanin, D., Ilic, S. (2019). Dealing with Structural Differences in Serialized BPMN Models. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Zdravkovic, J., Gulden, J., Schmidt, R. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2019 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 352. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20618-5_23

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