Translating Standard Process Models to BPEL

Ouyang, Chun and Dumas, Marlon and Breutel, Stephan W. and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. (2005) Translating Standard Process Models to BPEL.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Preprint
Keywords:	process modeling; BPMN; UML Activity Diagram; BPEL
Subjects:	Subjects UNSPECIFIED
ID Code:	2976
Deposited By:	Dumas, Marlon
Deposited On:	05 January 2006
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2005 (please consult author)