Beyond soundness: On the verification of semantic business process models

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-343

  Weber, Ingo ^a   Hoffmann, Jörg ^b   Mendling, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process management; Semantic technologies

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CONTROL FLOWS; CONTROL-FLOW; EXECUTION SEMANTICS; FIXPOINTS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; PROCESS ACTIVITIES; PROCESS BEHAVIOR; PROCESS MODEL; REACHABILITY; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; VERIFICATION TASK;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77952009558     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-010-7060-9     Document Type: Article

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