On the semantics of EPCs: resolving the vicious circle

  • Authors:
  • Ekkart Kindler

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Business process management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

One of the most debatable features of Event driven Process Chains (EPCs) is their non-local semantics. It can be shown that a single transition relation cannot precisely capture the non-local semantic of EPCs. Therefore, we formalize the non-local semantics of EPCs as a pair of two corresponding transition relations.Actually, there are different proposals for non-local semantics of EPCs. The technique proposed in this paper can be used for formalizing all kinds of non-local semantics. This way, it can be considered as a framework for defining non-local semantics and for resolving the vicious circle inherent to non-local semantics of EPCs.