Correctness-Preserving Configuration of Business Process Models

van der Aalst, Wil M.P. and Dumas, Marlon and Gottschalk, Florian and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. and La Rosa, Marcello and Mendling, Jan (2008) Correctness-Preserving Configuration of Business Process Models. In: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2008), 1-3 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary.

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DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-78743-3_4

Abstract

Reference process models capture recurrent business operations in a given domain such as procurement or logistics. These models are intended to be configured to fit the requirements of specific organizations or projects, leading to individualized process models that are subsequently used for domain analysis or solution design. Although the advantages of reusing reference process models compared to designing process models from scratch are widely accepted, the methods employed to configure reference process models are manual and error-prone. In particular, analysts are left with the burden of ensuring the correctness of the individualized process models and to manually fix errors. This paper proposes a foundation for configuring reference process models incrementally and in a way that ensures the correctness of the individualized process models, both with respect to syntax and behavioral semantics. Specifically, assuming the reference process model is behaviorally sound, the individualized process models are guaranteed to be sound.

ID Code:	12446
Item Type:	Conference Paper
Keywords :	Reference process model, model configuration, Petri net
ISBN:	9783540787426
ISSN:	1611-3349
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Conceptual Modelling (080603) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000)
Divisions:	QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology
Copyright Owner :	Copyright 2008 Springer
Copyright Statement :	This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Deposited On:	13 Feb 2008
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2009 02:36

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