Behind the Scenes of the BPMN Extension Mechanism - Principles, Problems and Options for Improvement

Richard Braun

2015

Abstract

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard for modeling business processes that is widely used and accepted both in academia and industry due to its well-defined meta model, its large set of concepts and its extensibility. BPMN is one of very few modeling languages that provides an integrated extension mechanism. However, the mechanism is not often implemented in research articles or in professional practice. We suppose, that both syntactical and methodical aspects within the BPMN extension mechanism may cause misunderstandings and uncertainty regarding its implementation. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth analysis of the extension mechanism in order to rationally figure out problematic aspects. These aspects are consolidated and compared to two existing BPMN extension methods. Based on that, a range of further research topics is finally derived.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Braun R. (2015). Behind the Scenes of the BPMN Extension Mechanism - Principles, Problems and Options for Improvement . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-083-3, pages 403-410. DOI: 10.5220/0005329904030410

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward15,
author={Richard Braun},
title={Behind the Scenes of the BPMN Extension Mechanism - Principles, Problems and Options for Improvement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2015},
pages={403-410},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005329904030410},
isbn={978-989-758-083-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Behind the Scenes of the BPMN Extension Mechanism - Principles, Problems and Options for Improvement
SN - 978-989-758-083-3
AU - Braun R.
PY - 2015
SP - 403
EP - 410
DO - 10.5220/0005329904030410