TY - GEN
T1 - BPMN Extensions for Modeling Continuous Processes
AU - Strutzenberger, Diana Viktoria
AU - Mangler, Juergen
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Business process management has focused on discrete processes so far, i.e., processes with identifiable distinct outcomes (e.g., in manufacturing). By contrast, processes known from process and control engineering, e.g., chemical synthesis, have not been fully considered yet. Such processes can be discrete or continuous, i.e., require real-time control systems with constant inlet and outlet flows as well as temporally stable conditions. This paper models continuous processes with existing and standardized means, i.e., BPMN, and provides an exact definition of the parameters and loop conditions. The capabilities of BPMN for modeling continuous processes are analyzed and necessary extensions are provided. The concepts are applied to several real-world use cases from process and control engineering.
AB - Business process management has focused on discrete processes so far, i.e., processes with identifiable distinct outcomes (e.g., in manufacturing). By contrast, processes known from process and control engineering, e.g., chemical synthesis, have not been fully considered yet. Such processes can be discrete or continuous, i.e., require real-time control systems with constant inlet and outlet flows as well as temporally stable conditions. This paper models continuous processes with existing and standardized means, i.e., BPMN, and provides an exact definition of the parameters and loop conditions. The capabilities of BPMN for modeling continuous processes are analyzed and necessary extensions are provided. The concepts are applied to several real-world use cases from process and control engineering.
KW - BPMN extensions
KW - Continuous processes
KW - Process and control engineering
KW - Process modeling and execution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111392965&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79108-7_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79108-7_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111392965
SN - 9783030791070
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 20
EP - 28
BT - Intelligent Information Systems - CAiSE Forum 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Nurcan, Selmin
A2 - Korthaus, Axel
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 33rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2021
Y2 - 28 June 2021 through 2 July 2021
ER -