VALIDATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS

Asghar Bokhari, Skip Poehlman

2006

Abstract

Enterprise information systems are complex software that are frequently required to adapt to rapid changes in business environments. Although there have been some successes, the research literature is full of horror stories due to failure of these systems. Current software engineering practice requires verification/validation of complex systems at the design stage. Unified Modeling Language (UML), which lacks formal semantics, is the defacto standard for designing the majority of information systems and that means dynamic analysis techniques cannot be used for validation of UML models. Consequently there has been a considerable interest among researchers in formalization of UML models. Early proposals translate UML state diagrams into some kind of mathematical language and input this textual description to a model checker. In this paper we present a rule-based technique to convert UML state diagrams to Object Coloured Petri (OCP) nets. A strong mathematical foundation, more amenable to verification and validation procedures, along with a graphical representation, makes Petri nets ideally suitable for dynamic analysis of UML modelled information systems.

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Bokhari A. and Poehlman S. (2006). VALIDATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 284-289. DOI: 10.5220/0002447802840289


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Asghar Bokhari and Skip Poehlman},
title={VALIDATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={284-289},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002447802840289},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - VALIDATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS USING PETRI NETS
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Bokhari A.
AU - Poehlman S.
PY - 2006
SP - 284
EP - 289
DO - 10.5220/0002447802840289