TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing a BPM environment with BPMN
AU - Tsai, Ching Hong
AU - Luo, How Jen
AU - Wang, Feng-Jian
PY - 2007/8/2
Y1 - 2007/8/2
N2 - Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents or tasks through a work process with automation for achieving certain goals. Many efforts have been spent by both industry and academia in attempting to define a common representation of a business process based on the concept of workflow. In 2005, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a business process language developed by OMG & WfMC which satisfies the goal. However, BPMN supports only the concepts & notations for modeling. Several real concerns for business purposes are out of scope of BPMN. Besides, it needs many efforts for the implementations of a BPMN environment. Here we present one simple approach to construct a Business Process Management System, BPMS, based on BPMN. In our approach, we developed a conceptual workflow model, BPMN*, a BPMN with some constraints, for the specification of a BPMs. The BPMN* specification is then translated into another specification, based on Cooperative Agentflow Process LANguage (CA-PLAN) and executable in a WFMS, Agentflow, developed in our laboratory. We have developed a specification tool for BPMN*. In the future, we will examine the functions of the tools in Agentflow based on BPMN* and upgrade the related feature for necessity
AB - Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents or tasks through a work process with automation for achieving certain goals. Many efforts have been spent by both industry and academia in attempting to define a common representation of a business process based on the concept of workflow. In 2005, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a business process language developed by OMG & WfMC which satisfies the goal. However, BPMN supports only the concepts & notations for modeling. Several real concerns for business purposes are out of scope of BPMN. Besides, it needs many efforts for the implementations of a BPMN environment. Here we present one simple approach to construct a Business Process Management System, BPMS, based on BPMN. In our approach, we developed a conceptual workflow model, BPMN*, a BPMN with some constraints, for the specification of a BPMs. The BPMN* specification is then translated into another specification, based on Cooperative Agentflow Process LANguage (CA-PLAN) and executable in a WFMS, Agentflow, developed in our laboratory. We have developed a specification tool for BPMN*. In the future, we will examine the functions of the tools in Agentflow based on BPMN* and upgrade the related feature for necessity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547328796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FTDCS.2007.17
DO - 10.1109/FTDCS.2007.17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547328796
SN - 0769528104
SN - 9780769528106
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
SP - 164
EP - 170
BT - Proceedings - FTDCS 2007
T2 - FTDCS 2007: 11th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Y2 - 21 March 2007 through 23 March 2007
ER -