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A Tool for Animating BPMN Token Flow

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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2012)

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The concept of tokens flowing through a process model is very useful for explaining and understanding the meaning and the execution semantics of a BPMN model. This paper presents a software tool for animating the token flow of arbitrary process models. It can handle different scenarios of gateway combinations, loops, expanded and attached sub-processes, untyped start and end events, as well as terminating end events. It is possible to show several process instances within the same model. They are represented as differently colored tokens.

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  1. Fachbereich Informatik und Mikrosystemtechnik, Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern, Amerikastr. 1, 66482, Zweibrücken, Germany

    Thomas Allweyer & Stefan Schweitzer

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Operations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Jan Mendling

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Matthias Weidlich

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Allweyer, T., Schweitzer, S. (2012). A Tool for Animating BPMN Token Flow. In: Mendling, J., Weidlich, M. (eds) Business Process Model and Notation. BPMN 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33155-8_8

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