BPMN Stands for Business Process Modelling Notation

This paper answers this question negatively. These developments raise the question of whether completely new notations are needed to support hybrid process modeling.

Instead, mixtures of declarative and imperative process modeling styles are sometimes preferable, leading to proposals for hybrid process modeling notations. Recently, it has been recognized that the boundary between imperative and declarative process modeling is not crisp. These notations allow modelers to capture constraints on the allowed activity flows, meaning that all flows are allowed provided that they do not violate the specified constraints. As an alternative, declarative process modeling notations have been proposed (e.g., Declare). In the past decade, several researchers have exposed the limitations of this paradigm in the context of business processes with high variability. In other words, every flow that is not specified is implicitly disallowed.

Traditional business process modeling notations, including the standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), rely on an imperative paradigm wherein the process model captures all allowed activity flows.

BPMN Stands for Business Process Modelling Notation