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BPM 2008: Business Process Management Workshops pp 585–596Cite as

Towards a BPMN Semantics Using UML Models

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 17))

Abstract

Standardization initiatives on the field claim to be a consequence of the long expected maturity of Business Process Management (i.e. BPM) market and they try to impose a precise semantics for an unique and common understanding. Standard specifications provide usually less or more informal description of the involved languages. Open-source/proprietary tools often do not succeed to generate an executable code by following only the specifications requirements. Therefore, they could not make a clear distinction between the specification technology they implement, and their own requirements vis-a-vis the enactment. For the sake of a common understanding of the concepts, and for future improvements of the languages, a high-level modelling using UML is needed. The aim of the paper is to discuss Service Interaction Patterns directly supported by BPMN 1.1, and to use UML models in order to describe the abstract syntax of the involved concepts. An informal correspondence with WS-BPEL 2.0 elements is provided, together with their associated UML models description. As a consequence of the limited support for Service Interaction Patterns, another purpose of the paper is to discuss the directions in which the BPMN Standard seems to evolve, in order to suit the industry demands.

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  1. Department of Internet Technology Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany

    Oana Nicolae, Adrian Giurca & Gerd Wagner

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  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

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Nicolae, O., Cosulschi, M., Giurca, A., Wagner, G. (2009). Towards a BPMN Semantics Using UML Models. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_59

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