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Business Process Modeling Notation

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The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), also known as the Business Process Model and Notation, is a graphical notation for drawing business processes. It is proposed as a standard notation for drawing models understandable by different business users. BPMN aims to bridge the communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation. The language is similar to other informal notations such as UML activity diagrams and extended event-driven process chains.

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BPMN was initially developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI). It is now being maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG) who released Version 2.0 in 2011 [1]. The intent of BPMN is to standardize a business process modeling notation in the face of many different modeling notations and viewpoints.

A model expressed in terms of BPMN is called a Business Process Diagram (BPD). A BPD is essentially a flowchart composed of different elements....

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  1. OMG Business Process Model and Notation (Version 2.0). 2011. http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0.

  2. White S. Using BPMN to model a BPEL process. BPTrends. 2005;3(3):1–18.

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  3. Wohed P, van der Aalst WWP, Dumas M, ter Hofstede AHM, Russell N. On the suitability of BPMN for business process modelling. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Business Process Management; 2006. p. 161–76.

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  4. Weske M. Business process management: concepts, languages, architectures. Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer; 2007.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    W. M. P. van der Aalst

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  1. W. M. P. van der Aalst
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2018). Business Process Modeling Notation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1195

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