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Towards an Integrated BPM Schema: Control Flow Heterogeneity of PNML and BPEL4WS

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Professional Knowledge Management (WM 2005)

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Although there have been standardization efforts for more than ten years, heterogeneity of business process modelling schemas is still a big problem for business process management. This paper discusses the applicability of schema integration methodology in this context and illustrates specific integration problems by discussing the example of BPEL and PNML. Different control flow representations are highlighted as a major challenge in this area. Using classical schema integration and the upward inheritance principle can yield an integrated schema that still includes redundant behavioral concepts. We conclude that future research has to identify extensions to the schema integration process in order to capture such specifics of BPM schemas.

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  1. Dept. of Information Systems and New Media, WU Vienna, Austria

    Jan Mendling & Uwe Zdun

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Databases and Information Systems, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

    Cristian Pérez de Laborda

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. Department of Business Information Systems II, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

    Ralph Bergmann

  4. Department for Experience Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern

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  5. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Mendling, J., de Laborda, C.P., Zdun, U. (2005). Towards an Integrated BPM Schema: Control Flow Heterogeneity of PNML and BPEL4WS. In: Althoff, KD., Dengel, A., Bergmann, R., Nick, M., Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds) Professional Knowledge Management. WM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590019_65

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