A Graphical Notation for Modeling Complex Events in Business Processes

  • Authors:
  • Gero Decker;Alexander Grosskopf;Alistair Barros

  • Affiliations:
  • Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany;Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany;SAP Research Centre Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • EDOC '07 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Using complex event rules for capturing dependencies between business processes is an emerging trend in enter- prise information systems. In previous work we have iden- tified a set of requirements for event extensions for busi- ness process modeling languages. This paper introduces a graphical language for modeling composite events in busi- ness processes, namely BEMN, that fulfills all these require- ments. These include event conjunction, disjunction and in- hibition as well as cardinality of events whose graphical expression can be factored into flow-oriented process mod- eling and event rule modeling. Formal semantics for the language are provided.