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Event-Based Gateways: Open Questions and Inconsistencies

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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2012)

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We discuss ambiguities and inconsistencies in the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 standard regarding the semantics of event-based gateways, and instantiating event-based gateways in particular. We suggest to use instantiating parallel event-based gateways to model asynchronous process behaviour and to clarify the BPMN standard accordingly. We further discourage from any other use of instantiating event-based gateways, and call for a clarification of the semantics of event-based gateways in general.

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  1. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Felix Kossak, Christa Illibauer & Verena Geist

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Operations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Jan Mendling

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Matthias Weidlich

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Kossak, F., Illibauer, C., Geist, V. (2012). Event-Based Gateways: Open Questions and Inconsistencies. In: Mendling, J., Weidlich, M. (eds) Business Process Model and Notation. BPMN 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33155-8_5

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