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The notion of event-driven process chains (EPC) is widely used to model processes. It is an ongoing discussion of how to reach executable workflows from EPCs. While the transformation of the general structure and the functions is well-understood, the transformation of events is an open issue. This paper discusses different possible events types and their semantics. Furthermore, it presents a transformation of the introduced event types to workflow constructs respecting the semantics of each event.
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Kopp, O., Wieland, M., Leymann, F. (2010). External and Internal Events in EPCs: e2EPCs. In: Rinderle-Ma, S., Sadiq, S., Leymann, F. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_36
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