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On Avoiding Erroneous Synchronization in BPMN Processes

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2017)

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BPMN has acquired a clear predominance in the modeling of organization processes. Since it is a fairly complex modeling language, in some cases it is important to clarify the behavior of a modeled process, especially when concurrency comes into play. We consider unsafe process models with arbitrary topology, and we focus on the effects of concurrent control flows activated within single process instances. We use text annotations to clarify the concurrent behavior, and tokens with identity to regulate the synchronizations. We illustrate the benefits of our approach by a simple, yet realistic, scenario about paper reviewing.

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Notes

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    An identifier, generated by a check-in \(n\), is called fresh if it is different from all other identifiers previously generated by the check-in \(n\).

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    Notably, no check-out is defined for \(n1\), meaning that identifiers of the form \((n1,id)\) must be keep on token identities until the end of the execution.

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    Flavio Corradini, Fabrizio Fornari, Chiara Muzi, Andrea Polini, Barbara Re & Francesco Tiezzi

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Corradini, F., Fornari, F., Muzi, C., Polini, A., Re, B., Tiezzi, F. (2017). On Avoiding Erroneous Synchronization in BPMN Processes. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 288. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59336-4_8

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