Contents

1. BPMN – A Standard for Business Process Modeling
   • 1.1 Why a Notation?
   • 1.2 Development of BPMN
   • 1.3 Contents of BPMN 2.0
   • 1.4 Business-Level Models and Executable Models
   • 1.5 About this Book
2. BPMN by Example
   • 2.1 A First BPMN Model
   • 2.2 BPMN Constructs Used
   • 2.3 Sequence Flow Logic
   • 2.4 Presentation Options
   • 2.5 Appending Additional Information
3. Gateways: Splitting and Merging
   • 3.1 Exclusive Gateway
   • 3.2 Parallel Gateway
   • 3.3 Different Process Instances at a Parallel Join
   • 3.4 Inclusive Gateway
   • 3.5 Complex Gateway
4. Splitting and Merging without Gateways
   • 4.1 Splitting without Gateways
   • 4.2 Merging without Gateways
   • 4.3 Modeling with or without Gateways?
5. Collaborations
   • 5.1 Example of a Collaboration
   • 5.2 Modeling Message Flows
   • 5.3 Message Flows to Black Box Pools
   • 5.4 Private and Public Processes
   • 5.5 Multi-Instance Participants
   • 5.6 Use of Collaborations and Sequence Flows
   • 5.7 Modeling Message Contents
6. Events
   • 6.1 Example of the Use of Events
   • 6.2 Start Events
   • 6.3 End Events
   • 6.4 Intermediate Events
   • 6.5 Event-Based Decisions
7. Activities
   • 7.1 Sub-Processes
   • 7.2 Loops and Multi-Instance Activities
   • 7.3 Ad-hoc Sub-Processes
   • 7.4 Types of Tasks
   • 7.5 Calling Processes and Global Tasks
   • 7.6 Examples of Sub-Processes and Called Processes
8. Handling Exceptions
   • 8.1 Interrupting Intermediate Events
   • 8.2 Non-Interrupting Intermediate Events
   • 8.3 Handling of Errors
   • 8.4 Escalation Events
   • 8.5 Event Sub-Processes
9. Transactions and Compensations
   • 9.1 Modeling of Transactions
   • 9.2 Direct Call of Compensations
   • 9.3 Event Sub-Processes for Compensations
   • 9.4 Use of Exceptions, Transactions, and Compensations
10. Data Objects in Processes
    • 10.1 Modeling Data Flow
    • 10.2 Multiple Data Objects
    • 10.3 Data and Events
    • 10.4 Data Stores
    • 10.5 Passing Data to Called Activities
    • 10.6 Use of Data Objects
11. Choreographies
    • 11.1 Choreography Diagrams
    • 11.2 Choreography within Collaboration
    • 11.3 Choreography Sub-Processes
    • 11.4 Gateways in Choreographies
    • 11.5 Events in Choreographies
    • 11.6 Calling Choreographies and Global Choreography Tasks
    • 11.7 Use of Choreographies and Collaborations
12. Conversations
    • 12.1 Conversation Diagrams
    • 12.2 Message Correlations
    • 12.3 Hierarchies of Conversations
    • 12.4 Calling Global Conversations and Collaborations
    • 12.5 Use of Conversation Diagrams
13. Artifacts and Extensions of BPMN
    • 13.1 Artifacts
    • 13.2 How to Extend BPMN
14. BPMN Modeling Patterns
    • 14.1 Four Eyes Principle
    • 14.2 Decisions in Sub-Processes
    • 14.3 Tasks with Multiple Actors
    • 14.4 Parallel Checks
    • 14.5 Process Interfaces
    • 14.6 Synchronizing Parallel Paths
    • 14.7 Requests with Different Types of Replies
    • 14.8 Processing Cancelations
    • 14.9 Deadline Monitoring
    • 14.10 Dunning Procedure
    • 14.11 Call for Proposals

1. Bibliography
2. BPMN in the Internet

• Index