BPMN: An introduction to the standard

The 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.

At the moment it is available in PDF as "Accepted manuscript" here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920548911000766

More information about the journal can be read here: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505607/description#description

Please feel free to write me for further information.

Michele Chinosi, Alberto Trombetta, BPMN: An introduction to the standard, 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)

Abstract:
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

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BPMN Usage Survey - Results

We 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.
"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.
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."

BPMN Usage Survey: Results

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26th of May: Added on Slideshare two more pages with tables related to the two charts "How much are you familiar with ..."

BPMN Usage Survey: Tables

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BPMN 2.0 Handbook: Collaborative Activities inside Pools

A new article in the BPMN 2.0 Handbook that will be launched next December at the BPMN for XDPL User Group event in Santa Clara, CA.

Title of the paper: Collaborative Activities inside Pools

You can see an overview of the book here: http://bpmnhandbook.com/06_digital_edition.html

While TOC and abstracts can be downloaded from this link: http://bpmnhandbook.com/04_papers/BPMN2Handbook_ToC_abstracts.pdf


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Our contribution in BPMN 2.0 submission

Recently the new submission version for BPMN has been published (BPMN 2.0 revised submission, April 6, 2009 version 0.9.9.1 - http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/apps/doc?bmi/09-04-01.pdf).
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.

Thank you.

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Interesting Research @ Vishal Saxena's blog

I wish to thank Vishal Saxena for having published today a post about my Ph.D. Thesis.

http://vishals.blogspot.com/2009/02/interesting-research-michele-chinosi.html

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