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BPMN4V for Modeling and Handling Versions of BPMN Collaborations and Choreographies

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This paper presents BPMN4V, an extension of BPMN with versions to address business process flexibility, which is an important issue that Business Process Management (BPM) systems must face before their definitive acceptance and use in companies. This issue has mainly been investigated in the context of intra-organizational processes but it received little attention in the context of Inter-organizational Processes (IoP), which correspond to processes crossing the boundaries of companies. This paper deals with IoP flexibility modeled as collaborations and choreographies in BPMN, advocating a version-based approach. Firstly, the paper introduces the provided extensions to BPMN 2.0 meta-model to take into account the notion of version considering both static and dynamic aspects of collaboration versions. Secondly, it presents a mapping approach for deducing version of choreography from version of collaboration. Thirdly, it introduces the BPMN4V-Modeler, which is an implementation of BPMN4V on top of the well-known BPMN-Modeler Eclipse plug-in.

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    See https://github.com/BPMN4V/BPMN4V-Modeler.

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    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXhydHK9Kw.

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  1. MIRACL, University of Sfax, Route de L’aéroport, BP 1088, 3018, Sfax, Tunisia

    Imen Ben Said, Mohamed Amine Chaâbane & Rafik Bouaziz

  2. IRIT, University of Toulouse 1, 2 rue du Doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Imen Ben Said & Eric Andonoff

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Ben Said, I., Chaâbane, M.A., Andonoff, E., Bouaziz, R. (2017). BPMN4V for Modeling and Handling Versions of BPMN Collaborations and Choreographies. In: Obaidat, M. (eds) E-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67876-4_5

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