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The goal of this paper is to contribute to efforts of improving the Business Process Modelling (BPM) practice. We present an original method for converting 0enterprise ontology Design & Engineering Method for Organisations (DEMO) process models into a BPMN 2.0 notation. By this approach, we are able to mitigate certain methodological deficiencies of BPMN. The method exhibits the following qualities: Implementation of the complete transaction pattern formulated by the PSI-theory, correct managing of multiple child transaction instances, and executability of the resulting BPMN model.
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In the DEMO theory, nothing can disappear, so the original fact remains in the fact bank, however, the transaction flow is changed.
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Apart from containing all the information from the other models.
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We cannot use a message send in this situation, because the encapsulation would be violated.
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This and the following models may not be legible in the printed version. We recommend obtaining the electronic (zoomable) version. The source models may be downloaded from https://ccmi.fit.cvut.cz/methodologies/bpmn/.
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This research has been funded by CTU SGS grant No. SGS16/120/OHK3/1T/18. The authors wish to deeply thank ForMetis BV and especially Dr. Steven van Kervel for the kind support of this research.
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Mráz, O., Náplava, P., Pergl, R., Skotnica, M. (2017). Converting DEMO PSI Transaction Pattern into BPMN: A Complete Method. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Guizzardi, G., Almeida, J., Magalhães, R., Lekkerkerk, H. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI. EEWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57955-9_7
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