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TN4PM: A Textual Notation for Process Modelling

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Intelligent Distributed Computing III

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 237))

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In this paper we compare three visual notations for modelling processes, and we propose a textual notation for modelling these processes. Our textual notation can be used just as a modelling notation, but it can also be used to translate the process models from one visual notation to another.

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  1. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042, Bucharest, Romania

    Andrei-Horia Mogos & Andreea Urzica

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O. Box 20537, CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George Angelos Papadopoulos

  2. Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal,Nr. 107, RO-200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Badica

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Mogos, AH., Urzica, A. (2009). TN4PM: A Textual Notation for Process Modelling. In: Papadopoulos, G.A., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing III. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03214-1_29

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