tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88981892293069769322024-03-06T08:18:16.758+01:00BPeX: Business Process eXtensionsAll about bpmn, bpel, xpdl, editors and other useful thingsMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-51121730151640968002012-03-27T14:53:00.003+02:002012-03-27T14:54:27.085+02:00"BPMN: An introduction to the standard" is one of the Top 25 Hottest Articles for 2011My article "BPMN: An introduction to the standard" has been rated as one of the <a href="http://goo.gl/JkIjO">Top 25 Hottest Articles // Computer Standards & Interfaces // January to December 2011 full year</a>!<br />
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-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-11331189667895986942012-01-12T09:55:00.000+01:002012-01-12T09:55:20.242+01:00BPMN 2.0 Handbook Second Edition<div style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">My article "Collaborative Activities Inside Pools" has been published again in this 2nd Edition! </span></b><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Following the ground-breaking body of work in the BPMN 2.0 Handbook First Edition in 2010, this book is greatly expanded with substantial new content and chapters updated to the latest advances in this important standard. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />** Detailed Table of Contents with full abstracts of each chap</span>ter <a href="http://futstrat.com/books/book_images/BPMN20Handbook_Second_Edition_Introduction.pdf" target="_blank">here </a><span style="font-size: small;">(9 pages PDF, no registration required)** <br /><br />Every chapter from the First Edition was closely examined by its authors and updated to the very latest information. Six completely new chapters and another 50 pages were also added. Authored by members of WfMC, OMG and other key participants in the development of BPMN 2.0, the BPMN 2.0 Handbook Second Edition assembles industry thought-leaders and international experts. </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />The authors examine a variety of aspects that start with an introduction of what’s new and updated in BPMN 2.0, and look closely at interchange, best practices, analytics, conformance, optimization, choreography and more from a technical perspective. The authors also address the business imperative for widespread adoption of the standard by examining best practice guidelines, BPMN business strategy and the human interface including real-life case studies. Other critical chapters tackle the practical aspects of making a BPMN model executable and the basic timeline analysis of a BPMN model. In addition to free bonus chapters from the latest edition and extra material supplied by authors, the <a href="http://bpmnhandbook.com/" target="_blank">BPMN 2.0 Companion website</a> contains BPMN and XPDL Verification/Validation files, webinars, videos, product specs, tools, free/trial modelers etc. This gives readers exposure to a larger resource on BPMN 2.0 and XPDL than a book alone can offer. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />-- mchinosi</span></div>Michele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-89098621922626028172012-01-12T09:52:00.000+01:002012-01-12T09:53:38.592+01:00BPMN: An introduction to the standard - UpdateThis post just to update the previous one. The article has been published in the CSI Journal. Herewith the details:<br />
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Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 124–134<br />
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-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-14788999955326718182011-06-15T14:54:00.003+02:002011-06-15T15:04:16.750+02:00BPMN: An introduction to the standardThe article "BPMN: An Introduction to the Standard" has been accepted to be soon published in the CSI (Computer Standards & Interfaces) journal, published by Elsevier B.V.<br /><br />At the moment it is available in PDF as "Accepted manuscript" here: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920548911000766">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920548911000766</a><br /><br />More information about the journal can be read here: <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505607/description#description">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505607/description#description</a><br /><br />Please feel free to write me for further information.<br /><br />Michele Chinosi, Alberto Trombetta, <span style="font-weight:bold;">BPMN: An introduction to the standard</span>, Computer Standards & Interfaces, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 13 June 2011, ISSN 0920-5489, DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2011.06.002. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920548911000766)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Abstract</span>:<br />The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), formerly known as Business Process Modeling Notation, is the de-facto standard for representing in a very expressive graphical way the processes occurring in virtually every kind of organization one can think of, from cuisine recipes to the Nobel Prize assignment process, severe incident management, e-mail voting systems, travel booking procedures, to name few. In this work, we give an (rather condensed) overview of the BPMN standard, as devised by OMG and we present what are the links with other well-known machineries such as BPEL and XPDL. We also give an assessment of how the OMG's BPMN standard - which is rather large and complex - is perceived and used by practitioners in everyday business process modeling chores. Keywords: BPMN; business processes; modeling techniques<br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-58589662809558358002011-05-25T08:52:00.005+02:002011-05-26T14:02:24.555+02:00BPMN Usage Survey - ResultsWe finished analysing the results collected from the survey we published two months ago. We would be very happy if you could add your comment(s) to this post or send them directly to the authors.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"These results will be part of a paper entitled “BPMN: an Introduction to the Standard” that will be published in 2011. In the article the collected results herewith presented are compared and sometimes merged with other data coming from other surveys and from freely available sources on the Internet, like LinkedIn groups dedicated to BPMN or Web-Communities.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">During the period of this survey more than 30 answers were collected. The intended audience of the questionnaire was a (even small) community of experts and proficient BPMN users. Thus, even if this survey can not be taken into account as representative of a public sentiment about BPMN, this work clearly represents a sight of the experts on how BPMN is used by practitioners in everyday business process modeling chores."</span><br /><br /><div style="width:382px" id="__ss_8092202"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/bpmn-usage-survey-results" title="BPMN Usage Survey: Results">BPMN Usage Survey: Results</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/8092202" width="382" height="408" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a> </div> </div><br /><br />26th of May: Added on Slideshare two more pages with tables related to the two charts "How much are you familiar with ..."<br /><br /><div style="width:340px" id="__ss_8109789"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/bpmn-usage-survey-tables" title="BPMN Usage Survey: Tables">BPMN Usage Survey: Tables</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/8109789" width="340" height="284" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a> </div> </div><br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-34418981233978868752011-04-01T11:48:00.001+02:002011-04-01T11:50:20.231+02:00[HELP!] BPMN adoption and use: a quick surveyI'm working hard on BPMN and particularly I'm interested now in collecting usage information, considering both BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0. To do so I prepared a brief on-line survey I ask you to fill. It will take you less than 10 minutes, but your contribution would be really fundamental and precious. I'll send you the results of this work as soon as possible. I plan to close the poll by mid April, so, please, try to allocate few minutes of your time to help me sharing your expertise.<br /><br />You can start the survey by clicking here:<br /><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERSVFFDMGYzdlZsWkN2S3VZTkpKTkE6MQ" target="_blank">https://spreadsheets.google.<wbr>com/viewform?formkey=<wbr>dERSVFFDMGYzdlZsWkN2S3VZTkpKTk<wbr>E6MQ</a><br /><br />Thank you very much<br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-52654563621556678772010-12-06T09:42:00.003+01:002010-12-06T09:44:40.160+01:00BPMN 2.0 Handbook<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://store.futstrat.com/servlet/Detail?no=85"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 281px;" src="http://futstrat.com/books/book_images/BPMN_20_Handbook_front_cover-thumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The new BPMN 2.0 Handbook has been launched last week during the XPDL4BPMN meeting organized by the WfMC.<br /><br /><br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-88795162570719026642010-11-03T12:07:00.004+01:002010-11-03T12:13:29.959+01:00BPMN 2.0 Handbook: Collaborative Activities inside Pools<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh573xZJkw-nWjcACiEbj-1fVj-98gbGffcawBr346kIAaWzRN-lJJAAZDFQUhtcthpmZDOY16NfGXaIXXtrAICh5yDRlbilKBvYztYMFOn5fTSSimyzfjD_1vR8YuOI_87zA7FJ3_ppSbv/s1600/BPMNhandbook_cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh573xZJkw-nWjcACiEbj-1fVj-98gbGffcawBr346kIAaWzRN-lJJAAZDFQUhtcthpmZDOY16NfGXaIXXtrAICh5yDRlbilKBvYztYMFOn5fTSSimyzfjD_1vR8YuOI_87zA7FJ3_ppSbv/s200/BPMNhandbook_cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535279964588196642" border="0" /></a><br />A new article in the <a href="http://www.futstrat.com/books/bpmnhandbook.php">BPMN 2.0 Handbook</a> that will be launched next December at the <strong>BPMN for XDPL User Group</strong> event in Santa Clara, CA.<br /><strong><br />Title of the paper: Colla</strong><strong>borative Activities inside Pools</strong><br /><br />You can see an overview of the book here: <a href="http://bpmnhandbook.com/06_digital_edition.html">http://bpmnhandbook.com/06_digital_edition.html</a><br /><br />While TOC and abstracts can be downloaded from this link: <a href="http://bpmnhandbook.com/04_papers/BPMN2Handbook_ToC_abstracts.pdf">http://bpmnhandbook.com/04_papers/BPMN2Handbook_ToC_abstracts.pdf</a><br /><br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-57274465857014422512009-12-10T15:47:00.001+01:002009-12-10T15:47:36.973+01:00Why To Consider BPMN 2.0Brief presentation summarizing some new features introduced by BPMN 2.0, focusing on few points (made to answer to particular needs of a research project)<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2690294"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/why-to-consider-bpmn-20" title="Why To Consider BPMN 2.0">Why To Consider BPMN 2.0</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=whytoconsiderbpmn20-091210084621-phpapp01&stripped_title=why-to-consider-bpmn-20" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=whytoconsiderbpmn20-091210084621-phpapp01&stripped_title=why-to-consider-bpmn-20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a>.</div></div>Michele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-855483995369807182009-11-11T11:53:00.001+01:002009-11-11T11:56:00.385+01:00Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google WaveWhat do you think about this?<br /><a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15618">http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15618</a><br />Business process modeling (using also BPMN) through the new Google project <a href="http://wave.google.com/help/wave/closed.html">Google Wave</a>.<br />It seems to me an interesting perspective!<br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-42564920835117384132009-11-09T14:36:00.002+01:002009-11-09T14:38:05.876+01:00Workflow Modeling in EU GENESIS ProjectWfMC "Thought Leader Summit" Meeting, Maidenhead (UK), 3-4 November 2009<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2436200"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/workflow-modeling-in-eu-genesis-project" title="Workflow Modeling in EU GENESIS Project">Workflow Modeling in EU GENESIS Project</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosi-wfmodelinggenesisproject-091106030355-phpapp02&stripped_title=workflow-modeling-in-eu-genesis-project" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosi-wfmodelinggenesisproject-091106030355-phpapp02&stripped_title=workflow-modeling-in-eu-genesis-project" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a>.</div></div>Michele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-76025714218222636952009-07-20T11:29:00.001+02:002009-07-20T11:29:13.507+02:00Modeling and Validating BPMN DiagramsBPMN 2009 Workshop @ CEC09 (IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing)<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1743050"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/modeling-and-validating-bpmn-diagrams" title="Modeling and Validating BPMN Diagrams">Modeling and Validating BPMN Diagrams</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosislides-090720042455-phpapp01&stripped_title=modeling-and-validating-bpmn-diagrams" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosislides-090720042455-phpapp01&stripped_title=modeling-and-validating-bpmn-diagrams" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a>.</div></div>Michele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-82617540505952620542009-06-22T13:54:00.002+02:002009-06-22T13:57:56.145+02:00Modeling Requirements for the Management of Electronic RecordsThis is the talk I presented @ <a href="http://wfmc.org/processgov-the-bpm-in-government-conference.html">Process.gov</a> conference last week.<br /><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1618851"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/modeling-requirements-for-the-management-of-electronic-records?type=powerpoint" title="Modeling Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records">Modeling Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosiho-090622065010-phpapp02&stripped_title=modeling-requirements-for-the-management-of-electronic-records" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosiho-090622065010-phpapp02&stripped_title=modeling-requirements-for-the-management-of-electronic-records" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">Microsoft Word documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi">Michele Chinosi</a>.</div></div>Michele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-60805907819758405392009-04-21T11:47:00.005+02:002009-04-21T11:52:51.443+02:00BPM & Workflow Handbook 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.futstrat.com/books/handbook09.php"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzc9np-wCUgPEQssb10DkUl0mACc6IEuPmltzlWw7CsIFLqAudi71d-VNmyjsOsxNX3sBwIjCLruVZiD82uM-PwMZq39OyssstS0MBSf9x33KHhgidZ5go5R60b3MR1v98VefLFt7mKtkn/s320/Cover_2009-BPM-and-Workflow-Handbook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327079859170516114" border="0" /></a>From the Table of Contents (<a href="http://www.futstrat.com/books/handbook09.php">http://www.futstrat.com/books/handbook09.php</a>):<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR BPMN</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Michele Chinosi and Alberto Trombetta, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy</span><br /><br />We present our contributions to business process design. Our starting point has been a thorough analysis of the OMG standard BPMN. While uncovering several of BPMN’s weak points, our analysis has brought in a novel three-phase design methodology for BPMN. Having a business processes notation and a corresponding conceptual model is not enough when dealing with the modeling of large, complex business processes. As already done in several other contexts, we provide a modeling methodology to support users design and represent business processes. Often, in real scenarios business processes are described using (more or less formalized) graphical languages and/or models. During the last few years, several efforts have been made in order to provide tools to accomplish this requirement, the more notable being WS-BPEL, XPDL, UML, BPMN. As another active line of work, there have been several attempts to provide formalization.<br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-431193788579095982009-04-21T11:39:00.004+02:002009-04-21T11:45:32.659+02:00Our contribution in BPMN 2.0 submissionRecently the new submission version for BPMN has been published (BPMN 2.0 revised submission, April 6, 2009 version 0.9.9.1 - <a href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/doc?bmi/09-04-01.pdf">http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/doc?bmi/09-04-01.pdf</a>).<br />The contribution we gave with our research has been acknowledged as "Insubria University" in the section "The following companies provided valuable review, feedback and support", page 2.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />-- mchinosiMichele Chinosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13488704941614175533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-37849614906439985952009-02-26T20:30:00.003+01:002009-02-26T20:35:46.962+01:00Interesting Research @ Vishal Saxena's blogI wish to thank Vishal Saxena for having published today a post about my Ph.D. Thesis.<br /><br /><a href="http://vishals.blogspot.com/2009/02/interesting-research-michele-chinosi.html">http://vishals.blogspot.com/2009/02/interesting-research-michele-chinosi.html</a><br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-31452615520785626112009-02-19T18:21:00.003+01:002009-02-19T18:26:14.607+01:00A Brief Ph.D. Thesis SummaryI wish to publish a brief summary of the content of my Ph.D. Thesis "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design Methodology</span>" emphasizing some important aspects. Feel free to comment this text or to contact me directly. Thank you.<br /><br />The main key points of my work are: a new conceptual model for BPs; an XML serialization of such model; a BP design methodology and business process diagrams views. I refer to the model as 'conceptual' because it was not sufficiently formalized to be considered a complete meta-model, even if I think that its base concepts are detailed enough to be considered a solid base for reasoning about BP(MN) modeling. I haven't too much formalized the model because of the forthcoming BPMN 2.0 standard. I know I cannot compete with OMG and with the two submission proposals.<br /><br />The conceptual model was originally developed to support and test our assumptions. However, it has some characteristics which could be taken into consideration while dealing with BPMN meta-model. Besides, the XML serialization of the model started some years ago to overcome the lack of a complete and compliant BPMN XML serialization. Nowadays, I think it can be very interesting to look at this XML-Schema model because of its simple and linear structure as well as for its main features: among others, it is a self-validating XML serialization of BPMN. This means that it is possible to natively check the syntax of a diagram, all the BPMN structural semantics rules and most of the behavioral semantics rules.<br /><br />That is, we can check quite all the rules provided by BPMN 1.1 specifications which could be checked without a simulation or an execution of the process (for instance, we can check if a process has loops, but we can not check whether those loops are infinite loops). So, it is a simple but powerful enough model to describe all the relevant features of BPs.<br /><br />Using this model, I've been able to provide a design methodology for BPs, while there are not other concrete proposals for this field. I think my work is one of the first contribution in the area of conceptual modeling of BPs and I believe that my effort could be very interesting, especially if we consider the survey presented by Rosemann during the last BPM conference in Milan (where he talked about the next BP challenges). The concept of views applied to BPs is another outcome which can be seen as a first preliminary result, because also in this case there are not other works regarding the possibility to emphasize different parts of a process. Some products offer this feature, but it is an artifact not supported by a native definition of views. Views permit us also to investigate several applications. In particular to define end users policies (at present not provided by BPMN standard neither by other notations). This implies the possibility to differentiate users access to BPs simplifying the process management inside companies. To access or modify a BP become no-more time consuming tasks. Moreover, the interest on security and privacy related topics arises and views could become the way through which these policies could be implemented.<br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-8462837562962598942009-01-22T15:21:00.001+01:002009-01-22T15:21:41.371+01:00Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design MethodologyThis is my PhD dissertation<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_912851"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/my-phd-dissertation-presentation?type=presentation" title="Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design Methodology">Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design Methodology</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=phdchinosislides-1231844097974962-2&stripped_title=my-phd-dissertation-presentation" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=phdchinosislides-1231844097974962-2&stripped_title=my-phd-dissertation-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> or <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=presentation">upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/thesis">thesis</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/bpex">bpex</a>)</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-87085329261664422152008-11-26T19:08:00.002+01:002008-11-26T19:11:15.933+01:00My PhD ThesisI'm finishing to write my PhD dissertation entitled:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Representing Business Processes: Conceptual Model and Design Methodology</span><br />I will discuss my thesis in January 2009<br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-14550836026680040352008-11-26T19:07:00.001+01:002008-11-26T19:07:43.140+01:00Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes <div><br /> <span class="slideshow-title" style="font-size:14px;">Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes</span><br /><br /> From: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi" class="slideshow-author">mchinosi</a>,<br /> <span class="ago">1 week ago</span><br /><br /><br /> <div class="slideshow-embed"><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_746395"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/integrating-privacy-policies-into-business-processes-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes">Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosiwosis2008-1226514404820358-8&stripped_title=integrating-privacy-policies-into-business-processes-presentation" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=chinosiwosis2008-1226514404820358-8&stripped_title=integrating-privacy-policies-into-business-processes-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View SlideShare <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/integrating-privacy-policies-into-business-processes-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="View Integrating Privacy Policies into Business Processes on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/wosis">wosis</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/privacy">privacy</a>)</div></div></div><br /><br /><br /> <div class="slideshow-description">Often, the modeled business processes involve sensible information whose disclosure is usually regulated by privacy policies. As such, the interaction between business processes and privacy policies is a critical issue worth to be investigated. Towards this end, we introduce a data model for BPMN and a corresponding XML-based representation (called BPeX) which we use to check whether a BPeX-represented business process is compliant with a P3P privacy policy. Our checking procedures are very efficient and require standard XML technology, such as XPath.</div><br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/integrating-privacy-policies-into-business-processes-presentation" class="slideshow-link">SlideShare Link</a><br /> </div><br /> <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTIyNzcyMjg4NDM2MSZwdD*xMjI3NzIyOTE*OTIzJnA9MTAxOTEmZD*mbj1ibG9nZ2VyJmc9MSZ*PSZvPThhZTYyMmRhMTlkMzQ4MTVhMzNhMTM*YmUwZGI2MmJl.gif" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-31200197759892934472008-11-26T19:06:00.001+01:002008-11-26T19:06:19.227+01:00BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability <div><br /> <span class="slideshow-title" style="font-size:14px;">BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version</span><br /><br /> From: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi" class="slideshow-author">mchinosi</a>,<br /> <span class="ago">1 week ago</span><br /><br /><br /> <div class="slideshow-embed"><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_749460"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/bpex-a-new-approach-to-bpmn-model-portability-updated-version-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version">BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=8awed230chinosifinal-1226588892735518-8&stripped_title=bpex-a-new-approach-to-bpmn-model-portability-updated-version-presentation" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=8awed230chinosifinal-1226588892735518-8&stripped_title=bpex-a-new-approach-to-bpmn-model-portability-updated-version-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View SlideShare <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/bpex-a-new-approach-to-bpmn-model-portability-updated-version-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="View BPeX: A New Approach to BPMN Model Portability - Updated Version on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/xml">xml</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/xpdl">xpdl</a>)</div></div></div><br /><br /><br /> <div class="slideshow-description">Updated Version of the proceedings published version</div><br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mchinosi/bpex-a-new-approach-to-bpmn-model-portability-updated-version-presentation" class="slideshow-link">SlideShare Link</a><br /> </div><br /> <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTIyNzcyMjc4OTQ2MSZwdD*xMjI3NzIyODI3OTUzJnA9MTAxOTEmZD*mbj1ibG9nZ2VyJmc9MSZ*PSZvPThhZTYyMmRhMTlkMzQ4MTVhMzNhMTM*YmUwZGI2MmJl.gif" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-85549991513319002732008-02-15T10:54:00.006+01:002008-02-15T11:43:26.832+01:00On April 21-23, 2008 I will be in Washington DC at <a href="http://transformationandinnovation.com/pages/workshops.htm">Architecture and Process conference</a> to present a panel on XPDL weakenesses.<br />Here are the main ones I found starting from the analysis of the example presented on XPDL specification document [WFMC-TC-1025]:<ul><li>an high complexity of the diagram</li><li>a great fragmentation of the information</li><li>a weak referential integrity (there are no unique IDs inside the XML-Schema definition)</li><li>very complex queries<br /></li></ul>On <a href="http://bpex.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Related_Standards">BPeX project page</a> it is possible to download a more detailed description of these points.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqs04CMsvXG7ZxlzmKbHNqs-ELeu4eAvvvPqgCzWbfy4J2Dk6KwlRe79Xpweej1IRK1S-nOT3g3tg90vCKPvVHCjOGQT39g3zxm3R1xJlch-G9xvxtkJCZQczq6P1YMj1cvSz7xDa3a4By/s1600-h/Colored_EOrder-main_example.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqs04CMsvXG7ZxlzmKbHNqs-ELeu4eAvvvPqgCzWbfy4J2Dk6KwlRe79Xpweej1IRK1S-nOT3g3tg90vCKPvVHCjOGQT39g3zxm3R1xJlch-G9xvxtkJCZQczq6P1YMj1cvSz7xDa3a4By/s320/Colored_EOrder-main_example.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167150666611806962" border="0" /></a>Fig. 1: EOrder main process<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYOeJ6Hi9ivZQ-v95KrmhT-jsIIADfU54ARLqPqY1h7wuCDjcaxJ5tXmKr88wrbzFg1CRlADlOzkwix7obuihqfZ69zEhTwIPMtxVh5996mHthC5-cAB5CwLo5yDYNCVLBT8iqbiiy7QPP/s1600-h/Colored_xpdl_solution2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYOeJ6Hi9ivZQ-v95KrmhT-jsIIADfU54ARLqPqY1h7wuCDjcaxJ5tXmKr88wrbzFg1CRlADlOzkwix7obuihqfZ69zEhTwIPMtxVh5996mHthC5-cAB5CwLo5yDYNCVLBT8iqbiiy7QPP/s320/Colored_xpdl_solution2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167152406073561858" border="0" /></a>Fig. 2: The XPDL version<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3awW8m5kcc1ryVAu9x9St_7OYaRNwNMpSuHseQufWam6sVRisQIygQzLPeXDUDE1bI8H-qdbrLJiXjWGXXJBFr2UfXf-lh1O3DBBWVxB9aXS4-5l6nkJcy_W9v0Xdy3JoJ83xRHkFDC1/s1600-h/Colored_bpex_solution2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3awW8m5kcc1ryVAu9x9St_7OYaRNwNMpSuHseQufWam6sVRisQIygQzLPeXDUDE1bI8H-qdbrLJiXjWGXXJBFr2UfXf-lh1O3DBBWVxB9aXS4-5l6nkJcy_W9v0Xdy3JoJ83xRHkFDC1/s320/Colored_bpex_solution2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167152784030683922" border="0" /></a>Fig. 3: The BPeX version<br /><br /></div><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-30521285318961736172007-07-24T11:52:00.000+02:002007-07-24T11:55:32.734+02:00Read the comment on Keith Swenson's blogRead the comment I wrote on Keith Swenson's blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">Go Flow</span>:<br /><a href="http://kswenson.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/the-diagram-is-the-meaning/#comments">http://kswenson.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/the-diagram-is-the-meaning/#comments</a><br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-84386601010721461772007-06-28T12:22:00.001+02:002007-07-24T11:56:02.972+02:00BPeX Editor: New ScreenshotHere it is a new screenshot of our editor for BPMN:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Y8RuJ-V0AxdEDPj_MTaEMveoVPzBCusW1NQD7px417pcZ73ChaEqnSiYg4N6L7OvUbrycQ3Jmb6vfhF953KnmWpK9YpW_rpeNpoa1HOBIt4dBbtwuJP0E23bJL1pGflTuW8_N7f91_ax/s1600-h/screen.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Y8RuJ-V0AxdEDPj_MTaEMveoVPzBCusW1NQD7px417pcZ73ChaEqnSiYg4N6L7OvUbrycQ3Jmb6vfhF953KnmWpK9YpW_rpeNpoa1HOBIt4dBbtwuJP0E23bJL1pGflTuW8_N7f91_ax/s320/screen.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081058892588958834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898189229306976932.post-22272058774437358462007-06-27T15:38:00.000+02:002007-07-24T11:56:16.636+02:00Read the comment on Bruce Silver's blogI posted a comment on Bruce Silver's blog, BPMS Watch.<br />The article is <a href="http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/03/26/diagrams-models-and-metamodelsoh-my/">Diagrams, Models, and Metamodels... Oh My!</a><br />Please, read it <a href="http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/03/26/diagrams-models-and-metamodelsoh-my/">here</a><br /><br />-- mchinosiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0