Yet Another Event-driven Process Chain - Modelling Workflow Patterns with yEPCs

Jan Mendling; Gustaf Neumann; Markus Nüttgens

doi:10.18417/emisa.1.1.1

Yet Another Event-driven Process Chain - Modelling Workflow Patterns with yEPCs

Jan Mendling
, Gustaf Neumann
, Markus Nüttgens

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Abstract

The 20 workflow patterns proposed by van der Aalst et al. provide a comprehensive benchmark for comparing process modelling languages. In this article, we discuss workflow pattern support of Event-Driven Process Chains (EPCs). Building on this analysis, we propose three extensions to EPCs in order to provide for workflow pattern support. These are the introduction of the so-called empty connector; inclusion of multiple instantiation concepts; and a cancellation construct. As both the latter are inspired by YAWL, we refer to this new class of EPCs as Yet Another Event-driven Process Chain (yEPC). Furthermore, we sketch how a transformation to YAWL can be used to specify the semantics of yEPCs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-13
Journal	Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures (Online)
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18417/emisa.1.1.1
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2005

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

502050 Business informatics

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