A Survey of Formal Business Process VerificationFrom Soundness to Variability

Heerko Groefsema, Doina Bucur

2013

Abstract

Formal verification of business process models is of interest to a number of application areas, including checking for basic process correctness, business compliance, and process variability. A large amount of work on these topics exist, while a comprehensive overview of the field and its directions is lacking. We provide an overview and critical reflections on existing approaches.

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Groefsema H. and Bucur D. (2013). A Survey of Formal Business Process VerificationFrom Soundness to Variability . In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-8565-56-3, pages 198-203. DOI: 10.5220/0004775401980203


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@conference{bmsd13,
author={Heerko Groefsema and Doina Bucur},
title={A Survey of Formal Business Process VerificationFrom Soundness to Variability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2013},
pages={198-203},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004775401980203},
isbn={978-989-8565-56-3},
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - A Survey of Formal Business Process VerificationFrom Soundness to Variability
SN - 978-989-8565-56-3
AU - Groefsema H.
AU - Bucur D.
PY - 2013
SP - 198
EP - 203
DO - 10.5220/0004775401980203