An Exchange Language for Process Modelling and Model Management

Abstract

Many development tools and environments have been used in process design to develop models and to perform simulations for processes. These development tools and environments generally use proprietary format to represent the developed models. Frequently, a model developed using a particular tool can not beused in another without tedious modifications. It is also common in process design that the developed models are not systematically managed, hence it is often impossible to reuse an existing model due to difficulties to retrieve knowledge and design artifacts relevant to the model. These problems greatly limit the exchange of the available resources in process design. In this paper, we propose an exchange language for process modeling and model management to promote interoperability of the process models and to enable systematic management of the process models.