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Business Process Modeling Notation is used by business modelers to model business processes logic and artifacts. However, it is inadequate in expressing the execution semantics of business processes and takes a process-oriented approach for modeling systems. UML, on the other hand, is known for its expressiveness to present the object-oriented approach for modeling software-based system. There is a rising need to transform business process models to flawless UML models. This paper proposes a modeling transformation technique for transforming a business process-modeling notation model to different UML diagrams, using Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) as a formal intermediate step to ensure flawless transformation. This transformation would allow modeler to take advantages of the presentation power in BPMN as well as the implementation power in UML. Furthermore, this step will bridge the gap between the different modeling notations previously mentioned.
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Yassin, A., Hassan, H. (2014). Transformation of Coloured Petri Nets to UML 2 Diagrams. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_13
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