Transformation of yEPC business process models to YAWL

  • Authors:
  • Jan Mendling;Michael Moser;Gustaf Neumann

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Model transformations are frequently applied in business process modeling to bridge between languages on a different level of abstraction and formality. In this paper, we define a transformation between yEPCs which is an extension to the popular Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) and YAWL, a formal workflow language that is able to capture all of the 20 workflow patterns reported in [1]. We illustrate the transformation challenges and present a suitable transformation algorithm. The benefit of the transformation is threefold. First, it clarifies the semantics of yEPCs via a mapping to YAWL. Second, the deployment of yEPC business process models as workflows is simplified. Thirdly, yEPC models can be analyzed with YAWL verification tools.