Tackling Different Business Process Perspectives - Modeling data, time, and decisions in BPMN processes

Modeling has always been at the core of organizational and information systems design. Business process models are foundational to all the phases of the BPM life-cycle and cover different aspects depending on the final modeling purpose. Traditional activity-centric process modeling languages focus on capturing the logical flow of activities while leaving other perspectives poorly supported. By taking BPMN as a reference, this thesis aims to investigate how and to which extent, existing activity-centric process modeling languages may be used to capture the temporal, informational, and decision perspectives of business processes, prompting a novel viewpoint on multi-perspective process modeling.

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