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Business Process Diagrams: An UML Extension
Abstract
Although UML offers models that can be used to describe business processes, many practitioners nevertheless prefer to employ languages that are specifically designed for this purpose. These business process languages typically provide only a weak integration with software modeling languages such as UML. To enhance the support of software development we therefore suggest to extend UML’s activity diagrams with a business process semantics which leads us to Business Process Diagrams (BPDs). We show how to derive BPDs from the well-known business process language of Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs). We use Petri nets as a common formal process meta model for both.
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