Automatic Recognition of Business Process Images

The Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is a defacto standard for modelling business processes in the early phases of systems development. The increased adoption of business process management approaches has led organizations to model large collections of BPMN business process models. The mix of constructs in BPMN business process models can lead to semantic error. The ability to take a picture of BPMN business process models and analyze the semantic correctness of BPMN business process images is thus a desirable feature. In this paper, we propose an automatic recognition method to transform BPMN business process images into Petri nets, for which efficient analysis techniques are available. The proposed recognition has been implemented as a tool, in conjunction with existing Petri net-based tools, that enables the soundness analysis of business process images. This transformation can led to the identification of deficiencies in the BPMN business process images.

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