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BPM 2008: Business Process Management Workshops pp 200–211Cite as

Towards Transformations from BPMN to Heterogeneous Systems

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By now, the mapping from BPMN to BPEL has been implemented in numerous tools, greatly assisting the business architect in the creation of BPEL processes. However, most of these tools are tailored especially for this transformation, neglecting the original purpose of BPMN: Providing a language independent process model. To address this shortcoming, a pure BPMN editor is needed, being dynamically extensible with several export features and added editing functionality. In this paper, we present a tool that follows this approach, not only providing a compelling transformation to BPEL but at the same time being extensible to other languages.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Tobias Küster & Axel Heßler

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Golgi 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Danilo Ardagna

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Massimo Mecella

  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jian Yang

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Küster, T., Heßler, A. (2009). Towards Transformations from BPMN to Heterogeneous Systems. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_20

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