BPMN: how much does it cost? an incremental approach

  • Authors:
  • Matteo Magnani;Danilo Montesi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bologna, Italy;University of Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we propose some extensions of the businessprocess modeling notation (BPMN) to be able to evaluate the overallcost of business process diagrams. The BPMN is very expressive, and ageneral treatment of this problem is very complex. Therefore, it seemsreasonable to define classes of business process diagrams capturing realprocesses and to develop efficient analysis methods for these classes. Inthe paper we define some relevant subsets of the BPMN, extend themwith the concept of cost, and provide computational models for eachclass, in most cases reducing them to existing problems for which efficientsolutions already exist.