Authors:
Carlos Habekost dos Santos
1
;
Lucinéia Heloisa Thom
1
and
Marcelo Fantinato
2
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and UFRGS, Brazil
;
2
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Business Process Management, Process Implementation, Business Process Model and Notation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
One of the ways to represent a business process graphically is using the Business Process Model and Notation
(BPMN). One of the things defined by the BPMN specification is a textual rule and a correspondent XML
Schema for each notational element. However, there are some limitations regarding textual rules of notational
elements and their XML Schema. For example, the XML Schema of end event element do not have any control
to not connect any element after it, which can lead to a modeling issue. This paper introduces an approach to
increment the XML Schema in a set of notational elements. The approach considers the BPMN textual rules
and compares with the current XML schema, proposed by BPMN. To evaluate the approach, we will develop
a prototype, to verify the completeness of the developed XML Schema allows better understanding compared
with the current schema and will use mathematical formalism to verify the correctness of this new schema.
We expect that our approach facilitate the und
erstanding of business process by users and minimize possible
implementation problems (e.g. deadlocks, lack of synchronization, livelocks, etc). Altogether, the results of
this research can be interesting for users who want develop the BPM tools.
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