A UML 2 Profile for Event Driven Process Chains

Aligning Business Processes and Software Connecting the UML 2 Profile for Event Driven Process Chains with Use Cases and Components

The alignment between business processes and software is inadequately supported in conceptual modelling, although business processes are often the starting point for software development and define requirements for software systems. To address this gap, we connect the UML 2 profile for Event Driven Process Chains (EPCs) [2] with UML 2 elements representing software requirements and components. ...

A Comparison of Event-driven Process Chains and UML Activity Diagram for Denoting Business Processes

Process Orientation and Object-Orientation — An Approach for Integrating UML and Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC)

Event-driven process chains (EPC) are used by many companies for modelling, analysing and redesigning business processes. The resulting EPC models are used as a starting point for the development of information systems and for the definition of workflows. They can be applied for simulation and activity based costing. A major area of application is the implementation of standard software package...

Business Process Diagrams: An UML Extension

Although UML offers models that can be used to describe business processes, many practitioners nevertheless prefer to employ languages that are specifically designed for this purpose. These business process languages typically provide only a weak integration with software modeling languages such as UML. To enhance the support of software development we therefore suggest to extend UML’s activity...

Business Process Modeling with EPC and UML: Transformation or Integration?

Process and object-orientation are basic concepts of modeling, implementing and customizing information systems. In this paper we present two approaches of combining those concepts into a coherent way. In the first approach we discuss how to transform business process models (Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) diagrams) into object-oriented models (Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams). The m...