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Workflow Model Compositions Preserving Relaxed Soundness

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Business Process Management (BPM 2006)

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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.

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  1. Fraunhofer ISST Berlin, Germany

    Juliane Siegeris

  2. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Armin Zimmermann

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  1. Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Schahram Dustdar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    José Luiz Fiadeiro

  3. Kno.e.sis Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, Ohio

    Amit P. Sheth

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Siegeris, J., Zimmermann, A. (2006). Workflow Model Compositions Preserving Relaxed Soundness. In: Dustdar, S., Fiadeiro, J.L., Sheth, A.P. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841760_13

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