BPMN is becoming the de facto standard for process description, analysis and simulation, in IT and many other business domains. BPMN supports different levels of abstraction, from high-level process models, to detailed models capable of being executed. Several tools now support, at least partly, OMG’s BPMN metamodel specification. However, while several other OMG’s metamodels include a formal s...

Business process modelling is one of the major aspects in the modern information system development. Recently business process model and notation (BPMN) has become a standard technique to support this activity. Typically the BPMN notations are used to understand enterprise’s business processes. However, limited work exists regarding how security concerns are addressed during the management of t...

Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), intends to bridge the gap between business process design and implementation. However, the specification of the notation does not include a formal semantics. This paper shows how a subset of the BPMN can be given a process semantics in Communicating Sequential Processes. Such a semantics ...

In addition to describing the internal process orchestration, or control flow, BPMN can represent choreography, the message exchange between processes. In the real world, an end-to-end business process may be composed of multiple BPMN processes interacting through choreography. This discussion sheds light on BPMN’s most subtle concepts: just what is a “process” in BPMN, and what does a “pool” r...

Choreographies capture the collaboration aspects between two or more processes. Explicit choreography notations have been included in the upcoming version 2.0 of the Business Process Model and Notation language (BPMN 2.0). This paper presents a first evaluation of the choreography modeling capabilities of BPMN 2.0 and presents a summary of the evaluation of BPEL-based approaches. The result is ...

Abstract Business process model and notation (BPMN) is a popular used for modelling mainly due to its high expressiveness. However, BPMN has shortcomings when dealing with specific domains (namely Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points systems), struggling activity duration, quality control points, effects monitoring nature. To tackle these limitations, the business extended expressiveness (BP...

Many factors influence the creation of understandable business process models for an appropriate audience. Understandability of process models becomes critical particularly when a process is complex and its model is large in structure. Using modularization to represent such models hierarchically (e.g. using sub-processes) is considered to contribute to the understandability of these models. To ...

Context: With business process modelling, companies and organizations can gain explicit control over their processes. Currently, there are many notations in the area of business process modelling, where Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is denoted as the de facto standard. Aims: The aim of this research is to provide the state-of-the-art results addressing the acceptance of BPMN, while...

The most important result to standardize the notation for graphical representation of Business Processes (BPs) is the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Despite the BPs modeled with BPMN being able to support business designers, BPMN models are not appropriate to support the analysis phase. BPMN models have no formal semantics to conduct qualitative analysis (validation and verificatio...