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Abstracting BPMN models

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The growing orientation in processes of contemporary information systems and service-oriented architectures has led to the existence of large repositories of complex process models that even though they are a great source of knowledge, they are managed with difficulties. Abstraction is a means to reduce the size and complexity of such models. The aim of this short paper is to present a set of abstraction rules that may be used to simplify complex BPMN process models while focusing on important process model elements (abstraction objects), such as activities, data etc. The abstraction rules are applied to real world process models.

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PCI '15: Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics
October 2015
438 pages
ISBN:9781450335515
DOI:10.1145/2801948
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  1. business process modelling
  2. process abstraction

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  • (2023)Reduction of data-value-aware process models: A relevance-based approachInformation Systems10.1016/j.is.2022.102157114(102157)Online publication date: Mar-2023
  • (2019)A Pattern Based Method for Simplifying a BPMN Process ModelApplied Sciences10.3390/app91123229:11(2322)Online publication date: 5-Jun-2019
  • (2016)A probabilistic method for business process verification: Reachability, Liveness and deadlock detection2016 4th IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CiSt)10.1109/CIST.2016.7805029(128-132)Online publication date: Oct-2016

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