Yet Another Event-driven Process Chain - Modelling Workflow Patterns with yEPCs

• Main Authors: Mendling, Jan, Neumann, Gustaf
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 2005
• Online Access: http://epub.wu.ac.at/6018/1/Mendling_etal_2005_EMISA_Yet%2DAnother%2DEvent%2Ddriven.pdf

The 20 workflow patterns proposed by van der Aalst et al. provide a comprehensive benchmark for comparing process modelling languages. In this article, we discuss workflow pattern support of Event-Driven Process Chains (EPCs). Building on this analysis, we propose three extensions to EPCs in order to provide for workflow pattern support. These are the introduction of the so-called empty connector; inclusion of multiple instantiation concepts; and a cancellation construct. As both the latter are inspired by YAWL, we refer to this new class of EPCs as Yet Another Event-driven Process Chain (yEPC). Furthermore, we sketch how a transformation to YAWL can be used to specify the semantics of yEPCs.