Toward design, modelling and analysis of dynamic workflow reconfigurations

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Mazzara;Faisal Abouzaid;Nicola Dragoni;Anirban Bhattacharyya

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK;École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada;Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  • Venue:
  • WS-FM'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web Services and Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper describes a case study involving the dynamic reconfiguration of an office workflow. We state the requirements on a system implementing the workflow and its reconfiguration, and describe the system's design in BPMN. We then use an asynchronous π -calculus and Webπ ∞ to model the design and to verify whether or not it will meet the requirements. In the process, we evaluate the formalisms for their suitability for the modelling and analysis of dynamic reconfiguration of dependable systems. The ultimate aim of this research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of formalisms for modelling dynamic reconfiguration and verifying requirements.