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BPMN: How Much Does It Cost? An Incremental Approach

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Business Process Management (BPM 2007)

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In this paper we propose some extensions of the business process modeling notation (BPMN) to be able to evaluate the overall cost of business process diagrams. The BPMN is very expressive, and a general treatment of this problem is very complex. Therefore, it seems reasonable to define classes of business process diagrams capturing real processes and to develop efficient analysis methods for these classes. In the paper we define some relevant subsets of the BPMN, extend them with the concept of cost, and provide computational models for each class, in most cases reducing them to existing problems for which efficient solutions already exist.

This work has been supported by projects Prin 2005 “Middleware basato su Java per la fornitura di servizi interattivi di TV digitale” and CIPE 4/2004 “Innovazione e centri di ricerca nelle Marche”.

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  1. University of Bologna, Italy

    Matteo Magnani & Danilo Montesi

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Magnani, M., Montesi, D. (2007). BPMN: How Much Does It Cost? An Incremental Approach. In: Alonso, G., Dadam, P., Rosemann, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_6

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