Linked.Archi BPMN Cross-Language Mappings

Linked.Archi BPMN Cross-Language Mappings: Overview back to ToC

This ontology has the following classes and properties.

Annotation Properties

• close match
• creator
• description
• issued
• license
• modified
• preferred namespace prefix
• preferred namespace uri
• related match
• source
• title

Linked.Archi BPMN Cross-Language Mappings: Description back to ToC

Cross-language SKOS mappings between BPMN 2.0.2 concepts and ArchiMate modeling language concepts, for both ArchiMate 3.2 and ArchiMate 4.0. These mappings are editorial. No official document maps BPMN to ArchiMate: the ArchiMate specification notes that BPMN can be used to detail business processes but defines no element-level correspondence, and the OMG BPMN specification does not mention ArchiMate. The assertions here express semantic proximity based on the concept definitions in the two specifications. The dominant predicate is deliberately skos:relatedMatch rather than skos:closeMatch, because the two notations model behaviour at different granularities and for different purposes. BPMN describes executable control flow — order, gateways, message exchange, exception paths. ArchiMate describes architectural behaviour and its relationship to structure, and its finest behavioural grain is coarser than a BPMN task. A mapping that claimed these coincide would overstate what a cross-notation query can conclude. BPMN Lite reaches these mappings through its own concept-level assertions: each bpmnl: class carries skos:exactMatch to its bpmn: counterpart, so a query that follows both hops resolves a BPMN Lite type onto the ArchiMate correspondences below. Not mapped, deliberately: bpmn:EventBasedGateway and bpmn:ComplexGateway (no ArchiMate construct expresses event-driven or condition-driven routing); bpmn:Gateway itself (abstract, with the routing semantics carried by its subclasses); and the BPMN serialization and extension machinery, which describes documents rather than architecture.

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Acknowledgments back to ToC

The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.