On the de-facto standard of event-driven process chains: Reviewing EPC implementations in process modelling tools

Autor(en): Karhof, A.
Jannaber, S.
Riehle, D.M.
Thomas, O. 
Delfmann, P.
Becker, J.
Herausgeber: Reussner, R.
Oberweis, A.
Stichwörter: Administrative data processing; BPM; Business process management; Business process model and notation (BPMN); Business process modelling; Chains; Enterprise resource management; EPC; Event driven process chain; Event-driven process chain; Language constructs; Management science; Modelling tools; Process engineering; Process modelling; Semantics; Standardization; Systems engineering, Business process management; Tool evaluation; Tool evaluations, Modeling languages
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Herausgeber: Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Enthalten in: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Band: P254
Startseite: 77
Seitenende: 91
Zusammenfassung: 
Nowadays, most process modelling tools implement popular modelling languages such as the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) or the Event-driven Process Chain (EPC). However, in contrast to BPMN, no effort has yet been undertaken to standardize the EPC language, thus rendering EPCs as being merely a de-facto standard for business process modelling. Subsequently, this paper addresses this issue by laying ground for a successful EPC standardization. To achieve this task, several process modelling tools have been evaluated regarding their implementation of the EPC language with the objective to derive consensus about important language constructs. The evaluation reveals that there is a high degree of variety in the way tools implement EPCs. Especially syntax, semantic and pragmatic of the EPC language are not perceived homogenously and, in fact, commonly neglected. Hence, our research provides valuable implications for further EPC standardization by highlighting the state-of-the-art of the EPC from a software point of view.
Beschreibung: 
Conference of Modellierung 2016 - Modeling 2016 ; Conference Date: 2 March 2016 Through 4 March 2016; Conference Code:126696
ISBN: 9783885796480
ISSN: 16175468
Externe URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016263019&partnerID=40&md5=5d372724724d3381850d12a8ceacdad2

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