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Translating standard process models to BPEL

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Chun Ouyang,

Marlon Dumas,

Stephan Breutel,

Arthur ter HofstedeAuthors Info & Claims

CAiSE'06: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering

Pages 417 - 432

https://doi.org/10.1007/11767138_28

Published: 05 June 2006 Publication History

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Standardisation of languages in the field of business process management has long been an elusive goal. Recently though, consensus has built around one process implementation language, namely BPEL, and two fundamentally similar process modelling notations, namely UML Activity Diagram (UML AD) and BPMN. This paper presents a technique for generating BPEL code from process models expressed in a core subset of BPMN and UML AD. This model-to-code translation is a necessary ingredient to the emergence of model-driven business process development environments based on these standards. The proposed translation has been implemented as an open source tool.

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Software Systems Engineering, University Duisburg-Essen, Sch�tzenbahn 70, Essen, Germany

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