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Modeling and Simulation Versions of Business Process using Petri Nets

Authors:
Fatma Ellouze
Mohamed Amine Chaâbane
Rafik Bouaziz
Eric Andonoff

Keywords: Flexible Business Process; Version; VBP2M; Petri nets; Mapping rules; MDA framework

Abstract:
This paper proposes a solution for modeling and simulating flexible Business Processes (BP) using version concepts. It advocates a Model Driven Architecture approach to handle versions of BP. The paper presents, first, a meta model (VBP2M: Versioned Business Process Meta model) for modeling versions of BP considering six perspectives of business processes: process, functional, operation, informational, organizational and intentional perspectives. Then, it proposes an extension of the meta model of Petri nets (PN) to support the version concepts. Finally, it defines mapping rules to translate versions of BP modeled in accordance with the VBP2M to PN models, with graphical representations, in order to be able to simulate the behavior of each version of BP.

Pages: 150 to 158

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4332

ISBN: 978-1-61208-247-9

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013