Resources can be human resources as well as any other resource assigned to activities during process execution. A direct mapping of the BPMN resources to ARIS constructs is not possible - due to the semantically different object types representing resources in ARIS. ARIS does not only provide different object types, but also different connection types.

BPMN 2.0 only knows one object type called Resource. The BPMN ActivityResource and its specialized sub-classes correspond to ARIS connection types in combination with object types. Therefore, resources are not included in the current version of the BPMN 2.0 implementation.

See: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), version 2.0.