DataFlow Analysis in BPMN Models

Anass Rachdi, Abdeslam En-Nouaary, Mohamed Dahchour

2017

Abstract

Business Process Management and Notation (BPMN) is the defacto standard used in enterprises for modeling business processes.However, this standard was not provided with a formal semantics, which makes the possibility of analysis limited to informal approaches such as observation. While most of the existing formal approaches for BPMN models verification focus on the control-flow, only few has treated the data-flow angle. The latter is important since the correct execution of activities in BPMN models is based on data’s availability and correctness. In this paper, we present a new approach that uses the DataRecord concept, adapted for the BPMN standard. The main advantage of our approach is that it locates the stage where the data flow anomaly has taken place as well as the source of data flow problem. Therefore the designer can easily correct the data flow anomaly.The model’s data flow problems are detected using an algorithm specific for the BPMN standard.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rachdi A., En-Nouaary A. and Dahchour M. (2017). DataFlow Analysis in BPMN Models . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 229-237. DOI: 10.5220/0006271202290237

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis17,
author={Anass Rachdi and Abdeslam En-Nouaary and Mohamed Dahchour},
title={DataFlow Analysis in BPMN Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={229-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006271202290237},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - DataFlow Analysis in BPMN Models
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Rachdi A.
AU - En-Nouaary A.
AU - Dahchour M.
PY - 2017
SP - 229
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0006271202290237