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


-- mchinosi

Workflow Modeling in EU GENESIS Project

WfMC "Thought Leader Summit" Meeting, Maidenhead (UK), 3-4 November 2009

Workflow Modeling in EU GENESIS Project

View more documents from Michele Chinosi.

On April 21-23, 2008 I will be in Washington DC at Architecture and Process conference to present a panel on XPDL weakenesses.
Here are the main ones I found starting from the analysis of the example presented on XPDL specification document [WFMC-TC-1025]:

• an high complexity of the diagram
• a great fragmentation of the information
• a weak referential integrity (there are no unique IDs inside the XML-Schema definition)
• very complex queries
  

On BPeX project page it is possible to download a more detailed description of these points.

Fig. 1: EOrder main process

Fig. 2: The XPDL version

Fig. 3: The BPeX version

-- mchinosi