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This paper proposes an extension of the Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) metamodel in order to provide means to model complex event patterns within process models. There are some first attempts aiming to graphically depict such patterns; however, none of them focus EPC as a widely-used modeling language, especially in a business-related context. Thus, the paper first of all derives and defines typical complex event patterns and analyzes whether they are representable using standard EPC models. On this basis, a metamodel extension is conceived and additional modeling notations proposed. Finally, the notation is applied on two application examples.
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This research was funded in part by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant numbers 01IS12050 (project IDENTIFY) and 01IS14004A (project iPRODICT).
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Krumeich, J., Mehdiyev, N., Werth, D., Loos, P. (2015). Towards an Extended Metamodel of Event-Driven Process Chains to Model Complex Event Patterns. In: Jeusfeld, M., Karlapalem, K. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9382. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25747-1_12
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