Verifying workflows with cancellation regions and or-joins: An approach based on relaxed soundness and invariants

Computer Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 294-314

  Verbeek, H M W ^a   Van Der Aalst, W M P ^a,b   Ter Hofstede, A H M ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Formal methods; Invariants; Patterns; Petri nets; Process models; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

FINAL STATE; INVARIANTS; LOSS OF CONTROL; NONLOCAL; PATTERNS; PROCESS MODEL; RELAXED SOUNDNESS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS;

ABSTRACTING; ERRORS; FORMAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; LINGUISTICS; PETRI NETS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36049051847     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxl074     Document Type: Article

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