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Currently there are a variety of different tools that may be used to analyze, model, describe and document a business process. However, it is difficult to exchange the information of a business process created in different tools because of the distinct information formats used in different tools. The XML Process Definition Language(XPDL) forms a common interchange standard. Generally a business process model can be represented by the UML activity diagram, but there is a difficult task to directly generate an XPDL document from a business process model represented by the standard activity diagram. In the paper we will propose an approach to generate an XPDL document from a business process model represented by the extended UML activity diagram and provide an implementation for the approach.
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Noh, HM., Wang, B., Yoo, CJ., Chang, OB. (2005). An Extension of UML Activity Diagram for Generation of XPDL Document. In: Zhang, Y., Tanaka, K., Yu, J.X., Wang, S., Li, M. (eds) Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005. APWeb 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_17
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