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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2006.13D.4.535

BPMN2XPDL: Transformation from BPMN to XPDL for a business process  

Park Jung-Up (한양대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Jung Moon-Young (미라콤아이앤씨)
Jo Myung-Hyun (코난테크놀로지)
Kim Hak-Soo (한양대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Son Jin-Hyun (한양대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.13D, no.4, 2006 , pp. 535-548 More about this Journal
Abstract
To formally describe business process, many business process languages have been so far specified with different origins and goals such as XPDL, BPML and BPELAWS. Especially, XPDL proposed by WfMC has been widely used in various business process environments for a long time. On the other hand, the necessity of a standard graphical notation for a business process may create BPMN driven by BPMI. Because BPMN is composed of graphical constructs which can be used to graphically depict business process, BPMN-formed business processes should ultimately be converted to their corresponding semantically equivalent business process language(XPDL). Then, the business process languages can be consequently executed by business process engines. In this paper, we proposed a transformation mechanism from BPMN to XPDL for a business process. By this paper, We minimized the difference between process designers and process execution modules as reducing the gap of semantics between BPMN and XPDL.
Keywords
BPMN; XPDL; Business Process;
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