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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Application of Formal Methods to Verify Business Processes

Authors : Luis E. Mendoza Morales, Carlos Monsalve, Mónica Villavicencio

Published in: Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Formal specifications and modeling languages can be used to provide support for Business Process (BP) analysts and designers to verify the behavior of BPs with respect to business performance indicators (i.e., service time, waiting time or queue size). This article presents the application of the Timed Automata (TA) formal language to check BPs modeled with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) using the model checking verification technique. Also, a set of transformation rules and two algorithms are introduced to obtain TA-networks from BPMN models, allowing the formal specification of a BP-task model equivalent to the BPMN model. The approach presented here contributes to conduct the qualitative analysis of BPMN models.

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We agree with [3] to specify a structured BPMN model as a process graph to conduct the transformation (presented in Sect. 4).
 
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Metadata
Title
Application of Formal Methods to Verify Business Processes
Authors
Luis E. Mendoza Morales
Carlos Monsalve
Mónica Villavicencio
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49814-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-49815-7

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49815-7_3

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