Computer Science and Information Systems 2015 Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages: 1101-1120
https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS141112013J
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Enhancing BPMN 2.0 informational perspective to support interoperability for cross-organizational business processes
Jankovic Marija (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade)
Ljubicic Miroslav (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade)
Anicic Nenad (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade)
Marjanovic Zoran (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade)
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is being adopted as one of the
industry standards for modeling cross-organizational business processes
(CBPs). BPMN analyzes a business process as a set of interrelated activities,
focusing primarily on the functional perspective of the process. However, for
successful CBP modeling, an informational perspective is important. Although
BPMN 2.0 supports information flow design, existing representations of
data/information elements are not sufficient to support CBP modeling
requirements. In this light, the paper proposes an approach for formal
modeling and specification of information requirements used and generated in
the CBPs. A UML View Profile is introduced to specify information
requirements as views over the common reference ontology. A BPMN 2.0
extension is introduced to connect the defined views and the corresponding
process activities. Ultimately, the proposed information requirements
specification enables generation of the message instance and its
transformation at the implementation level.
Keywords: BPMN, UML, interoperability, view, CBP