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Towards a Business Process Model Transformations Framework

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Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2015)

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The essential purpose of Business Process Management (BPM) is to construct processes which yield a profit for enterprise. In today’s business world, there is a strong need for adopting a BPM approach based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm that can be applied to execute and manage IT-enabled business processes. Hence, the proposed BP model transformations framework combines BPM concepts and Web services which is an application of SOA technology. Two basic categories of BP modelling languages can be recognized: block-oriented languages and graph-oriented languages. Our work details the implementation of the transformation of Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) process model to Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process model by means of transformation rules implemented as an Eclipse plug-ins. Finally, we develop also a software tool by applying Petri Nets analysis techniques to statically check if it satisfies a number of semantic conditions.

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The work published in this paper was achieved within the ISID research team of CEDRIC/CNAM-Paris, France that the authors want to thank Prof. Jacky Akoka and all members for their valuable help.

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    Khoutir Bouchbout, Sarah Khaldoun & Saber Marouf

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Bouchbout, K., Khaldoun, S., Marouf, S. (2015). Towards a Business Process Model Transformations Framework. In: Barjis, J., Pergl, R., Babkin, E. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24626-0_3

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