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ERP Future 2015: Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering pp 31–45Cite as

Business Process Model Semantics in BPMN

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In this article we will provide an overview of Business Process Modeling notations as they have evolved over the past 50 years within the field of information systems. The emphasis in this article will be on the contemporary OMG standard for Business Process Modeling Notations: BPMN. We will analyze the BPMN notation on the ontological, the organizational and the aggregation perspectives. The suitability of the BPMN as a business process modeling notation within model-driven architectures will be discussed.

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  1. School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Peter Bollen

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Universität Innsbruck Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  2. Andrassy University Budapest , Budapest, Hungary

    Felix Piazolo

  3. FH Johanneum Univ. of Applied Science , Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Ortner

  4. University of Applied Sciences Munich , Munich, Germany

    Lars Brehm

  5. University of Applied Sciences Munich , Munich, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Hof

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Bollen, P. (2016). Business Process Model Semantics in BPMN. In: Felderer, M., Piazolo, F., Ortner, W., Brehm, L., Hof, HJ. (eds) Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering. ERP Future 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32799-0_3

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