Transformation of yEPC business process models to YAWL

Jan Mendling, Michael Moser, Gustaf Neumann
2006 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing - SAC '06  
Model transformations are frequently applied in business process modeling to bridge between languages on a different level of abstraction and formality. In this paper, we define a transformation between yEPCs which is an extension to the popular Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) and YAWL, a formal workflow language that is able to capture all of the 20 workflow patterns reported in [1] . We illustrate the transformation challenges and present a suitable transformation algorithm. The benefit of
more » ... e transformation is threefold. First, it clarifies the semantics of yEPCs via a mapping to YAWL. Second, the deployment of yEPC business process models as workflows is simplified. Thirdly, yEPC models can be analyzed with YAWL verification tools.
doi:10.1145/1141277.1141572 dblp:conf/sac/MendlingMN06 fatcat:s4qa2pmmbvfppnxmnqrk5q2afi