Bridging the Gap between XPDL and Situation Calculus: A Hybrid Approach for Business Process Verification

Bing Li, Junichi Iijima

2007

Abstract

Business Process Verification (BPV) is increasingly important in emerging BPM Systems. Although many approaches related to BPV exist, the gap between formal models defined in previous research and informal models used in the industry prevents these approaches from large-scale industrial applications. This paper proposes a hybrid approach to bridge the gap between XPDL and Situation Calculus. XPDL defines a business process informally while Situation Calculus provides a formal specification to enable the function of BPV. The gap between them will be bridged by a devised language – XSSL, based on which the process model will be logically verified.

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in Harvard Style

Li B. and Iijima J. (2007). Bridging the Gap between XPDL and Situation Calculus: A Hybrid Approach for Business Process Verification . In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-95-5, pages 151-156. DOI: 10.5220/0002416501510156


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis07,
author={Bing Li and Junichi Iijima},
title={Bridging the Gap between XPDL and Situation Calculus: A Hybrid Approach for Business Process Verification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={151-156},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002416501510156},
isbn={978-972-8865-95-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Bridging the Gap between XPDL and Situation Calculus: A Hybrid Approach for Business Process Verification
SN - 978-972-8865-95-5
AU - Li B.
AU - Iijima J.
PY - 2007
SP - 151
EP - 156
DO - 10.5220/0002416501510156