A survey of formal business process verification from soundness to variability

BMSD 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 198-203

  Groefsema, Heerko ^a   Bucur, Doina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business process management; Model checking; Survey; Verification

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FORMAL VERIFICATION; MODEL CHECKING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VERIFICATION;

APPLICATION AREA; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CRITICAL REFLECTIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS; PROCESS VARIABILITY;

COMPLIANCE CONTROL;

EID: 84906770301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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