Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-27

BibliographySchumm, David; Karastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank; Nitzsche, Jörg: On Visualizing and Modelling BPEL with BPMN.
In: Müller, Henning (ed.); Chen, Jinjun (ed.); Cafaro, Massimo (ed.); Park, Jong Hyuk (ed.); Abdennadher, Nabil (ed.): IEEE Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (IWWM2009).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 80-87, english.
Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, May 26, 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3677-4.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.2 (Software Engineering Design Tools and Techniques)
 H.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsBPEL; BPMN; Modelling; Visualizing
Abstract

The advantages of the process-based approach to implementing applications lead to the development of notations for modelling business processes and languages for enacting them in a process engine for the purpose of process automation. Currently the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is typically used for modelling business processes and the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is used as the process execution format. Both languages differ in purpose, expressivity and operational semantics. Recently it has been shown that there is no complete bi-directional mapping between BPMN and BPEL and transformations have been defined between the two formalisms. However, these transformations lead to more complex models in both, BPEL and BPMN, and enable a roundtrip for only a limited number of scenarios. In this paper we show how BPEL processes can be modelled using the graphical aspect of BPMN in order to facilitate modelling of executable processes using BPMN while avoiding model transformations.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)SUPER
COMPAS
Entry dateMarch 4, 2009
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