TM4BPPMN: Recasting BPMN to Low-Level of Abstraction

Abstract

Business process modelling languages are a very prominent mechanism to understand companies’ business processes. This mechanism allows managers to communicate and transversal information through a semantic flow for business process improvement. Examples of Business Process modelling languages are Unified Modeling Language (UML) or Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). UML presents alternative views to model company’s functionalities. While, BPMN still have a very abstracted level to model Business Processes. In this context, there are many BPMN extensions to break down its high-level of abstraction. However, most of existing BPMN extensions model a significant increase in business process complexity that deviate it from its crucial objective. This put forward the difficulty of detailing control flow related to information systems without reaching complexity. To that end, we propose our TM4BPMN extension for breaking-down BPMN high abstraction to low-level, to maintain BPMN facility in representing BPs, using Thinging Machine (TM) techniques.

Keywords

• thinging machine
• business process improvement
• bpmn extension
• tm4bpmn