Translating BPMN to business rules

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Abstract

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard graphical notation that is widely used for modeling Business Processes (BP) in Business Process Management (BPM) systems. A key application of such systems is continuous analysis of BP execution for checking compliance of execution logs with process models. In this paper we introduce a simple, human-readable rule language based on a fragment of First-Order Logic (FOL) and show how compliance rules can be generated directly from BPMN models. We focus on control flow aspects of BPMN models by (1) transforming the model to obtain a uniform representation of task activation (2) dividing the model into sets of components and (3) using our proposed language to generate compliance rules for each component. We show that these rules can be used in the analysis of the business process execution log using British Telecom’s Aperture business process analysis tool.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationData-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis - 6th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium, SIMPDA 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsPaolo Ceravolo, Christian Guetl, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages22-36
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319741604
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event6th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2016 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 15 Dec 201616 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume307
ISSN (Print)1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

Conference

Conference6th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period15/12/1616/12/16

Keywords

  • BPM
  • BPMN
  • Conformance checking
  • FOL
  • Process mining

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