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Towards Automated Performance Optimization of BPMN Business Processes

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New Trends in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2016)

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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) provides a standard for the design of business processes. It focuses on bridging the gap between the analysis and the technical perspectives, and aims to deliver process automation. The aim of this work is to complement this effort by transferring knowledge from the related field of data-centric workflows aiming to provide automated performance optimization of the business process execution. As a key step towards this goal, the contribution of this work is to provide a methodology to map BPMNv2.0 models to annotated directed acyclic graphs, which emphasize the volume of the tokens exchanged and are amenable to existing automated optimization algorithms. In addition, concrete examples of mappings are given, while the optimization opportunities that are opened are explained.

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    A more extended version of this work is in [3].

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    http://camunda.org/bpmn/reference/.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anastasios Gounaris

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirjana Ivanović

  2. Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

  3. University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Barbara Catania

  4. Software Competence Cent. Hagenberg GmbH, Hagenberg, Austria

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  5. Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Mārīte Kirikova

  6. VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Petr Šaloun

  7. Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA

    Ajantha Dahanayake

  8. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Tania Cerquitelli

  9. Politecnico di Torino , Torino, Italy

    Elena Baralis

  10. EURECOM, Biot Sophia Antipolis cedex, France

    Pietro Michiardi

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Gounaris, A. (2016). Towards Automated Performance Optimization of BPMN Business Processes. In: Ivanović, M., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44066-8_2

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