Developer-friendly verification of process-based systems

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 667-676

  Pulvermueller, Elke ^a   Feja, Sven ^b   Speck, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process verification; Extended temporal logic; Graphical result presentation; Graphical specification; Model checking; User friendliness

Indexed keywords

BROAD APPLICATION; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS VERIFICATION; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; ELEMENT TYPE; GRAPHICAL EDITORS; GRAPHICAL NOTATION; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; KEY ISSUES; MODEL CHECKER; PROCESS MODELING; SPECIFICATION MODELS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM QUALITY; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; TOOL SUPPORT; TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION MODEL;

SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 77955517736     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.03.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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