Mapping business processes models from Petri nets into event-driven process chains

Abstract

Business Process Reuse is an important phase in the Business Process life-cycle that for some reason has not attracted enough attention. To support the reuse phase we are building a software infrastructure called the Process Assembler. Process reuse involves many steps. In the paper we briefly discuss all of them, but then focus only on the mapping from one process definition language (which is Petri Nets) into another (Event-driven Process Chains). We build the mapping algorithm and support it by software, which is the core of the Mapper component of a system that is currently under construction. An example demonstrating the work of the algorithm is also provided.