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176 APPENDIX A. BPMN
Figure A.6: BPMN Associations
A.4 Swimlanes
A.4.1
Pool
A Pool represents a Participant in a Process. It is also acts as a "swimlane" and a
graphical container for partitioning a set of activities from other Pools, usually in the
context of B2B situations.
A.4.2
Lane
A Lane is a sub-partition within a Pool and will extend the entire length of the Pool,
either vertically or horizontally. Lanes are used to organize and categorize activities.
The Pool is notated as Swimlane Diagram and the Lane can be notated with Horizontal
Swimlane or Vertical Swimlane, which are illustrated as Figure A.7.
Figure A.7: BPMN Swimlanes – Pool and Lane
A.5 Artifacts
A.5.1
Data Object
Data Objects are considered Artifacts because they do not have any direct effect on
the Sequence Flow or Message Flow of the Process, but they do provide information
about what activities require to be performed and/or what they produce. The notation
of Data Object is displayed in Figure A.8.
Grouping and Annotation are not supported by Metis 5.2.2 currently.