Correctness of Business Process Models with Roles and Objects

Mendling, Jan and La Rosa, Marcello and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. (2008) Correctness of Business Process Models with Roles and Objects. (Unpublished)

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The verification of business process models is an important step in the design phase of process-aware information systems. While a process model often describes different perspectives like control flow, object flow, and role assignment, most of the contributions in the areas of verification consider only the control flow. Hardly any work considers these three perspectives in a combined verification approach. In this paper we address this gap and introduce Integrated EPCs (iEPCs), a business process modeling language that extends EPCs with a concept of object flow and role assignment. By abstracting from the subtle differences of recent EPC semantics definitions, we show how any of these formalizations can be enhanced with transition rules that consider object existence and role availability as part of the state concept. Furthermore, we define three theorems that relate soundness of EPCs to soundness of iEPCs with different initial role and object set. These theorems provide the basis for a systematic verification approach of iEPCs that first identifies control-flow problems, then object-flow problems, and finally suitable role subsets. This way, our work contributes to a better identification of correctness issues already in conceptual process models in the early design phases.

ID Code:	13845
Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords :	Business Process Modeling, Verification, Soundness, Systems Analysis and Design
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 (The authors)
Deposited On:	23 Jun 2008
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2009 02:21

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Soundness of EPC Process Models with Objects and Roles. (deposited 28 Mar 2008)
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