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The BPMN Model Interchange Working Group (BPMN MIWG), under OMG, drives a demonstration that runs stepwise imports, refinements, and exports across multiple vendor tools. 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BPMN is the prevalent standard for modeling business processes. In order to facilitate working with BPMN processes, businesses must be able to exchange process models across tools from various vendors. The BPMN Interchange Working Group (BPMN MIWG) which is part of the Object Management Group’s (OMG) effort to improve model interchange proposes a demonstration showcasing the current state of interoperability of BPMN processes by conducting a series of imports, refinements, and exports across tools from several vendors.  \n1 Introduction  \nWith the increasing adoption of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) [1], businesses are more and more using tools supporting BPMN. In order to avoid recreating processes for each tool, it is imperative to have a standard format for exchanging processes modeled using BPMN [2, 3] . This includes not only being able to export processes from one modeling tool to the next but also from modeling tools used by business users to more complex execution environments which provide automation or analytical capabilities.  \nThis article first introduces the capabilities and current limitations of interchange of BPMN processes. Sections 2 and 3 introduce the BPMN Model Interchange Working Group (BPMN MIWG) along with its activities and results. Based on this background information, section 5 introduces the planned demonstration which showcases the stepwise exchange and refinement of BPMN processes across tools from multiple vendors.  \n2 Interchange Capabilities1  \nIn BPMN 2.0, processes comprise two aspects: (1) Process models contain the semantics and (2) Process diagrams store the visual representation of the process models. In order to exchange processes between tools, both aspects have to be contained in a BPMN file storing both the model and the diagram. Beyond the semantic richness introduced with the latest version, BPMN 2.0 defines standardized formats for creating XML files which contain both aspects. This allows exchanging BPMN processes between tools of different vendors.  \nMirroring the two aspects of BPMN processes, these XML BPMN files comprise two parts: (1) One or more process models containing the semantics and (2) One or more process diagrams store the visual representation of the process models. In the  \n1 This article is based in parts on [3] and [2] . Particularly, sections 2 and 3 are taken from [3] .  \nadfa, p. 1, 2011.  \n© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011  \nBPMN specification, this latter part is referred to as BPMN Diagram Interchange (BPMN DI) .  \nBPMN 2.0 offers two XML formats for storing BPMN processes: (1) A format defined using XML Schema Definition (XSD) and (2) a format defined using XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) . Both formats provide essentially the same expressive power. However, with the XSD-based format being more popular, this demonstration focuses on the XSD-based format.  \n3 Interchange Limitations  \nEven though the BPMN 2.0 Diagram Interchange supports exchanging BPMN process models, there are still currently some limitations on the success of interchange.  \nThe BPMN Diagram Interchange (BPMN DI) provides mechanisms for specifying the basic visual layout of BPMN diagrams. However, the BPMN DI provides no mechanisms for the following aspects of a BPMN diagram (as they are intentionally not covered by BPMN 2.0 specification): (1) Colors of shapes and text, (2) Shape decorations like shadows, gradients, or backgrounds, (3) Text wrapping, and (4) Thickness (in pixels) and style of the lines. Therefore, the same BPMN diagram maybe rendered somewhat differently in different tools without violating BPMN compliance.  \nBesides the visual aspects of process diagrams, there are some semantic aspects (i.e. places where BPMN specification left room for selecting way to add implementation related details e.g. several languages with different semantics can be used) which are also not covered by BPMN i","cbCaigQd3hu2FBsu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigQd3hu2FBsu","pdf",130123,"English","# 1 Introduction\n# 2 Interchange Capabilities\n## 2.1 BPMN 2.0 process semantics and diagram interchange\n## 2.2 XSD vs XMI formats\n# 3 Interchange Limitations\n## 3.1 Diagram interchange and visual differences\n## 3.2 Semantic gaps and proprietary extensions\n# 4 BPMN MIWG","[{\"question\":\"Why is BPMN interchange challenging across different modeling tools?\",\"answer\":\"Interchange requires both semantics and diagram information, and even then visual rendering and semantic details may diverge. 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