Title: Correctness of artefact-centric business process models

Authors: Guosheng Kang

Addresses: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Abstract: The verification of business process models is an important step in the design phase of process-aware information systems. Currently, in the area of artefact-centric process model verification, the focus has been on the static formal analysis of process executions. However, seldom have they considered the correctness of artefact-centric business process models themselves from both structural and behavioural perspectives. In this paper, we fill this gap by introducing the concept of correctness for artefact-centric business process models from both structural and behavioural aspects. In artefact-centric modelling approach, a business process is modelled as the interaction of the involved artefact lifecycles. Therefore, the correctness of the associated artefact lifecycle models is the foundation of the correctness of an artefact-centric process model. Both structural soundness and behavioural soundness of artefact lifecycle models are proposed and the corresponding verification approaches are proposed, based on which the correctness of an artefact-centric business process model can be identified. Our work contributes to the identification of correctness issues in artefact-centric business process models in the early design or modelling phase.

Keywords: artefact-centric; data model; services; business process modelling; lifecycle; correctness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2017.085397

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2017 Vol.8 No.3, pp.172 - 181

Received: 17 May 2016
Accepted: 04 Jan 2017
Published online: 25 Jul 2017 *

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