Analyzing process models using graph reduction techniques
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
Workflow Verification: Finding Control-Flow Errors Using Petri-Net-Based Techniques
Business Process Management, Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies
ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management
Business Process Management, Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies
Applying Propositional Logic to Workflow Verification
Information Technology and Management
An evaluation of conceptual business process modelling languages
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
BDI-agents for agile goal-oriented business processes
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN
Information and Software Technology
Unifying agent and component concepts: Jadex active components
MATES'10 Proceedings of the 8th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
Jadexcloud - an infrastructure for enterprise cloud applications
MATES'11 Proceedings of the 9th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
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Increasing automation of business processes and industrial demand for complex workflow features have led to the development of more flexible and agile workflow concepts. One of those concepts is the use of goal-oriented workflows, which rely on ideas derived from agent technology like describing the workflows based on a goal hierarchy.While this reduces the gap between business view and IT view and allows for easy implementation of contengencies, the concepts have greater conceptual abstraction obscuring the control flow and reducing the ability of workflow engineers to identify specification flaws in the workflow. This paper shows an approach to address this problem by presenting a system for testing and validating workflows within a specified parameter space. The system allows the definition of test cases (scenarios), each of which contains parameter states applied during workflow execution. The workflow engineer can define a set of scenarios for a workflow testing specific situation that are likely to occur during operation or are otherwise interesting corner cases, allowing automated tests and correction of faults before deployment of the workflow in production environments.