ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
On the semantics of EPCs: resolving the vicious circle
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Business process management
YAWL: yet another workflow language
Information Systems
Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN
Information and Software Technology
ICFEM '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Formal Semantics of BPMN Process Models Using YAWL
IITA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology Application - Volume 02
Semantics of standard process models with OR-joins
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
Formal analysis of BPMN via a translation into COWS
COORDINATION'08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Coordination models and languages
A new semantics for the inclusive converging gateway in safe processes
BPM'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Business process management
Approaches to modeling business processes: a critical analysis of BPMN, workflow patterns and YAWL
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
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We present the first direct formalization of the semantics of inclusive gateways as described in the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 Beta 1 specification. The formal semantics is given for a minimal subset of BPMN 2.0 containing just the inclusive and exclusive gateways and the start and stop events. By focusing on this subset we achieve a simple graph model that highlights the particular nonlocal features of the inclusive gateway semantics. We sketch two ways of implementing the semantics using algorithms based on incrementally updated data structures and also discuss distributed communication-based implementations of the two algorithms.