Triple Graph Grammars for the Transformation of Business Process Models: an Evaluation Based on Fujaba

In recent years the need for business process model transformation has increased. The primary reason for this is the importance of business to business interopeability. A lot of research is done in this area. Several transformation techniques exist in the field of MDA which is the model driven architecture as defined by Object Management Group (OMG). In this work, a transformation approach, namely Triple Graph Grammars will be inspected for its suitability in business process model trans- formation. Event-driven process chains and UML activity diagrams are chosen as business process modeling languages because of the wide spread popularity of these languages. Fujaba will be used as transformation tool for its Triple Graph Grammar support and its extendibility. Fujaba is an open source pro ject from the University of Paderborn. Its primary topic is to provide an extendable platform for UML, Story Driven Modeling and Graph Transformation. In order to make a statement on how suitable the described approach is, a list of criteria is defined. Based on this criteria business process model transformation with triple graph grammars will be evaluated.