Symbolic Abstraction and Deadlock-Freeness Verification of Inter-enterprise Processes

  • Authors:
  • Kais Klai;Samir Tata;Jörg Desel

  • Affiliations:
  • LIPN, CNRS UMR 7030, Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France F-93430;Institut TELECOM, CNRS UMR Samovar, Evry, France 91011;Department of Applied Computer Science, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany 85071

  • Venue:
  • BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The design of complex inter-enterprise business processes (IEBP) is generally performed in a modular way. Each process is designed separately from the others and then the whole IEBP is obtained by composition. Even if such a modular approach is intuitive and facilitates the design problem, it poses the problem that correct behavior of each business process of the IEBP taken alone does not guarantee a correct behavior of the composed IEBP (i.e. properties are not preserved by composition). Proving correctness of the (unknown) composed process is strongly related to the model checking problem of a system model. Among others, the symbolic observation graph based approach has proven to be very helpful for efficient model checking in general. Since it is heavily based on abstraction techniques and thus hides detailed information about system components that are not relevant for the correctness decision, it is promising to transfer this concept to the problem rised in this paper: How can the symbolic observation graph technique be adapted and employed for process composition? Answering this question is the aim of this paper.