xoEPC - Jan Mendling

List of Figures
1.1 Information Systems Research Framework as defined by Hevner et al.
[HMPR04, p.80] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1 History of Office Automation and Workflow Systems [Mue04, p.93] . . . 19
2.2 Business process management life cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3 Concepts of a modeling technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.4 Business process modeling process in detail, adapted from [FW06] . . . . 31
3.1 EPC for a loan request process [NR02] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2 EPC for offering further products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.3 An EPC with nodes that have no path from a start event and that have no
path to an end event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.4 An EPC (a) with labelled nodes and (b) its nodes related to the subsets of
Definition 3.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.5 The return deliveries process from the SAP Reference Model with a hierarchical
decomposition of the Warehouse function. . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.6 EPCs (a) with one OR-join and (b) with two OR-joins on the loop . . . . 55
3.7 EPCs with three OR-joins on the loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3.8 EPC refined with an OR-Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.9 Cyclic EPC refined with an OR-Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.10 Test Equipment Management EPC from the Quality Management branch
of the SAP Reference Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.11 Example of EPC marking propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3.12 Transition relation for dead context propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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