A Rigorous Semantics for BPMN 2.0 Process Diagrams

Kossak, Felix; Illibauer, Christa; Geist, Verena; Kubovy, Jan; Natschläger, Christine; Ziebermayr, Thomas; Kopetzky, Theodorich; Freudenthaler, Bernhard; Schewe, Klaus‐Dieter

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“…It is based on the version 1.0 of BPMN, which does not include notation meta-model and gives more freedom to the authors in the interpretation of the language. Few years later, Kossak et al [44] proposed a semantics based on Abstract State Machines for BPMN single process diagrams; differently from our proposal where collaboration aspects, such as pools and message exchange, play a key role, in [44] they are overlooked.…”

Section: A Bpmn Direct Formalisationsmentioning

confidence: 75%

BProVe: A formal verification framework for business process models

Corradini

Fornari

Polini

et al. 2017

2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

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Abstract-Business Process Modelling has acquired increasing relevance in software development. Available notations, such as BPMN, permit to describe activities of complex organisations. On the one hand, this shortens the communication gap between domain experts and IT specialists. On the other hand, this permits to clarify the characteristics of software systems introduced to provide automatic support for such activities. Nevertheless, the lack of formal semantics hinders the automatic verification of relevant properties.This paper presents a novel verification framework for BPMN 2.0, called BProVe. It is based on an operational semantics, implemented using MAUDE, devised to make the verification general and effective. A complete tool chain, based on the Eclipse modelling environment, allows for rigorous modelling and analysis of Business Processes. The approach has been validated using more than one thousand models available on a publicly accessible repository. Besides showing the performance of BProVe, this validation demonstrates its practical benefits in identifying correctness issues in real models.

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Section: A Bpmn Direct Formalisationsmentioning

confidence: 75%

BProVe: A formal verification framework for business process models

Corradini

Fornari

Polini

et al. 2017

2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

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“…BPMN has been studied in healthcare and assessed as suitable for modelling and visualising clinical pathways39 , 40 and is being chosen as the modelling notation an increasing number of studies 26 , 27 , 38 – 40. Critically, for our purpose to specify conflicts arising from interaction with data, it is designed for extension,39 , 41 and for formal analysis of modelled pathways, semantics can be properly specified for subsets of BPMN 42 , 43…”

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Automated conflict resolution between multiple clinical pathways: a technology report

Litchfield

Turner

Backman

et al. 2018

BMJ Health Care Inform

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BackgroundThe number of people in the UK with three or more long-term conditions continues to grow and the management of patients with co-morbidities is complex. In treating patients with multimorbidities, a fundamental problem is understanding and detecting points of conflict between different guidelines which to date has relied on individual clinicians collating disparate information.ObjectiveWe will develop a framework for modelling a diverse set of care pathways, and investigate how conflicts can be detected and resolved automatically. We will use this knowledge to develop a software tool for use by clinicians that can map guidelines, highlight root causes of conflict between these guidelines and suggest ways they might be resolved.MethodOur work consists of three phases. First, we will accurately model clinical pathways for six of the most common chronic diseases; second, we will automatically identify and detect sources of conflict across the pathways and how they might be resolved. Third, we will present a case study to prove the validity of our approach using a team of clinicians to detect and resolve the conflicts in the treatment of a fictional patient with multiple common morbidities and compare their findings and recommendations with those derived automatically using our novel software.DiscussionThis paper describes the development of an important software-based method for identifying a conflict between clinical guidelines. Our findings will support clinicians treating patients with multimorbidity in both primary and secondary care settings.

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“…BPMN is an ISO/IEC standard since 2013 but its semantics is only described informally in official documents [3,4]. Therefore, several attempts have been made for providing BPMN with a formal semantics, e.g., [5,6,7,8,9]. In this paper, we abstract the features of BPMN related to data and we focus on the core features of BPMN, i.e., its control flow constructs, which is the subset of interest with respect to the properties we propose to formally analyse in this paper.…”

Section: Bpmnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Checking business process evolution

Krishna

Poizat²,

Salaün³

2019

Science of Computer Programming

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Business processes support the design and implementation of software as workflows of local and inter-organization activities. Tools provide the business process designer with modelling and execution facilities, but they barely provide formal analysis techniques. When one makes a process evolve, for example by refactoring it or by adding new features in it, it is important to be able to check whether, and how, this process has changed, and possibly correct evolution flaws. To reach this objective, we first present a model transformation from the BPMN standard notation to the LNT process algebra and LTS formal models. We then propose a set of relations for comparing business processes at the formal model level. With reference to related work, we propose a richer set of comparison primitives supporting renaming, refinement, property and context-awareness. We also support BPMN processes containing unbalanced structures among gateways. In order to make the checking of evolution convenient for business process designers, we have implemented tool support for our approach as a web application.

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A Rigorous Semantics for BPMN 2.0 Process Diagrams

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BProVe: A formal verification framework for business process models

BProVe: A formal verification framework for business process models

Automated conflict resolution between multiple clinical pathways: a technology report

Checking business process evolution

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