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Trends on the Usage of BPMN 2.0 from Publicly Available Repositories

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2021)

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Abstract

Business Process Model and Notation is the de facto standard for graphically modelling business processes. Since its first release in 2004, it evolved until reaching the actual 2.0 version, which presents more than 85 elements. Despite the notation being rich in graphical elements, initial studies show that only a subset of the BPMN elements is actually used. This paper aims at investigating whether the BPMN vocabulary adopted nowadays by model designers shows some particular trends. We collected 25,590 models from six online repositories to conduct such an investigation, and we analysed them. We report and discuss the obtained results providing insights on the correlations in the BPMN vocabulary and the resulting complexity of BPMN models.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    BPMN 2.0.2 is the latest version released in December 2013 https://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0.2 formally published by ISO as the 2013 edition standard: ISO/IEC 19510.

  2. 2.

    More than 70 tools support BPMN (http://www.bpmn.org).

  3. 3.

    The full collection name is “IBM Research GmbH, BIT process library, release 2009”.

  4. 4.

    The full collection name is “Camunda BPMN for Research”.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/camunda/bpmn-for-research.

  6. 6.

    http://www.ech-bpm.ch/de/process-library.

  7. 7.

    https://www.genmymodel.com/.

  8. 8.

    http://pros.unicam.it/reprository.

  9. 9.

    https://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/About-BPMN/.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/PROSLab/BPMN-element-counter.

  11. 11.

    As it can be seen from Fig. 1 we associated an ID to each BPMN element so, for presentation purposes, the following analysis and diagrams use the IDs instead of the plain name of the elements.

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    Ivan Compagnucci, Flavio Corradini, Fabrizio Fornari & Barbara Re

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Compagnucci, I., Corradini, F., Fornari, F., Re, B. (2021). Trends on the Usage of BPMN 2.0 from Publicly Available Repositories. In: Buchmann, R.A., Polini, A., Johansson, B., Karagiannis, D. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87205-2_6

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