Extending BPMN for Configurable Process Modeling
Configurable process modeling provides a key approach to capture possible process variations into one (reference) model on the one hand and to retrieve individual process variants through configuration of the model on the other hand.BPMN,a standard for business process modeling and a mainstream language being widely adopted in practice,lacks the configurable modeling capability.In this paper,we propose an extension to BPMN to support configurable process modeling with a focus on control-flow perspective.Using configurable workflow net as the theoretical foundation,we formally define the semantics of the proposed extension to BPMN,its correctness-preserving conditions,and its configuration semantics.We name the resulting language Configurable BPMN,i.e.C-BPMN,and provide a running example to illustrate how C-BPMN supports configurable process modeling as well as process configuration.
Configurable process modeling Configuration semantics configurable reference model BPMN
Hongyan ZHANG Weilun HAN Chun OUYANG
School of Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044,China Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
国际会议
The 21st ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (2014国际并行工程学术会议)
北京
英文
317-330
2014-09-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）