Workflow Model Compositions Preserving Relaxed Soundness

@incollection{citeulike:2318855, abstract = {Very often, e.g. in the context of inter-organizational Workflow or web services, it is necessary to merge existing business process descriptions. It is clear that correctness criteria valid for the single process descriptions should remain valid also for the combined model. However, looking at the popular soundness criterion this can not always be guaranteed. In this paper various composition alternatives are summarized and their ability to preserve relaxed soundness (in contrast to soundness) is investigated. Keywords: Workflow, Composition, Inter-organizational Workflow, Validation, Petri nets.}, author = {Siegeris, Juliane and Zimmermann, Armin}, citeulike-article-id = {2318855}, doi = {10.1007/11841760_13}, journal = {Business Process Management}, pages = {177--192}, posted-at = {2008-02-01 10:43:43}, priority = {0}, title = {Workflow Model Compositions Preserving Relaxed Soundness}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11841760_13}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2318855 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2318855 N2 - Very often, e.g. in the context of inter-organizational Workflow or web services, it is necessary to merge existing business process descriptions. It is clear that correctness criteria valid for the single process descriptions should remain valid also for the combined model. However, looking at the popular soundness criterion this can not always be guaranteed. In this paper various composition alternatives are summarized and their ability to preserve relaxed soundness (in contrast to soundness) is investigated. Keywords: Workflow, Composition, Inter-organizational Workflow, Validation, Petri nets. JF - Business Process Management EP - 192 TI - Workflow Model Compositions Preserving Relaxed Soundness SP - 177 AU - Siegeris, Juliane AU - Zimmermann, Armin PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11841760_13 ER -