Extending the Abstraction Capability of BPMN by Introducing Vertical Abstraction 


Vol. 16,  No. 2, pp. 223-236, Apr.  2009
10.3745/KIPSTD.2009.16.2.223


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BPMN is a standard business process description notation developed by OMG. It allows the user to have an abstract view of a process that hides its details with the Collapsed Sub-Process notation. While it is a useful direction of abstraction that can be called the horizontal abstraction, a different kind of abstraction, the vertical abstraction, is necessary when different stakeholders of business would like to have different views of the business process form their own viewpoints of interest. For example, stakeholders may want to see a process from the viewpoint of a particular group of actors or from the viewpoint of a certain set of goals. This paper first extends horizontal abstraction capability of BPMN by introducing the notion of super edge and, moreover, adds the vertical abstraction capability to it by introducing the notions of ‘aspect attribute’ and ‘interest specification’ and notations for them.

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[IEEE Style]

S. W. Kang, D. H. Lee, Y. W. Ahn, "Extending the Abstraction Capability of BPMN by Introducing Vertical Abstraction," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 223-236, 2009. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2009.16.2.223.

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Sung Won Kang, Dan Hyung Lee, and Yu Whoan Ahn. 2009. Extending the Abstraction Capability of BPMN by Introducing Vertical Abstraction. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 16, 2, (2009), 223-236. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2009.16.2.223.

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