Author :
Gagné, Denis ; Trudel, André
Author_Institution :
Trisotech, Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We present time-BPMN which is an extension to the current version of the business process modeling notation (BPMN). Time-BPMN captures the temporal perspective of business processes. This extension deals with the various temporal constraints and dependencies that may occur while characterizing real world business processes. Time-BPMN allows for the specification and depiction of temporal constraints and dependencies within a BPMN diagram. It not only extends, but also simplifies certain existing temporal BPMN constructs. With our extension, BPMN becomes expressive enough to account for a very large set of real world business processes that are time dependent.
Keywords :
business data processing; formal specification; specification languages; business process modeling notation; formal specification; temporal constraint; temporal dependency; temporal perspective; time-BPMN; Algebra; Business communication; Communication standards; Cost function; Delay effects; Knowledge representation; Proposals; Scheduling; BPMN; temporal constraints and dependencies; temporal perspective; temporal semantics;
Conference_Titel :
Commerce and Enterprise Computing, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3755-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.71
