TOWARDS A FORMAL VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODEL’S PROPERTIES - SimplePDL and TOCL Case Study

Benôıt Combemale, Pierre-Löıc Garoche, Xavier Crégut, Xavier Thirioux, Francois Vernadat

2007

Abstract

More and more, models, through Domain Specific Languages (DSL), tend to be the solution to define complex systems. Expressing properties specific to these metamodels and checking them appear as an urgent need. Until now, the only complete industrial solutions that are available consider structural properties such as the ones that could be expressed in OCL. There are although some attempts on behavioural properties for DSL. This paper addresses a method to specify and then check temporal properties over models. The case study is SIMPLEPDL, a process metamodel. We propose a way to use a temporal extension of OCL, TOCL, to express properties. We specify a models transformation to Petri Nets and LTL formulae for both the process model and its associated temporal properties. We check these properties using a model checker and enrich the model with the analysis results. This work is a first step towards a generic framework to specify and effectively check temporal properties over arbitrary models.

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Combemale B., Garoche P., Crégut X., Thirioux X. and Vernadat F. (2007). TOWARDS A FORMAL VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODEL’S PROPERTIES - SimplePDL and TOCL Case Study . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 80-89. DOI: 10.5220/0002399800800089


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Benôıt Combemale and Pierre-Löıc Garoche and Xavier Crégut and Xavier Thirioux and Francois Vernadat},
title={TOWARDS A FORMAL VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODEL’S PROPERTIES - SimplePDL and TOCL Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={80-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002399800800089},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS A FORMAL VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODEL’S PROPERTIES - SimplePDL and TOCL Case Study
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Combemale B.
AU - Garoche P.
AU - Crégut X.
AU - Thirioux X.
AU - Vernadat F.
PY - 2007
SP - 80
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0002399800800089