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In this paper, we describe the modeling and analysis of a protocol for operational support during workflow enactment. Operational support provides online replies to questions such as “is my execution valid?” and “how do I end the execution in the fastest/cheapest way?”, and may be invoked multiple times for each execution.
Multiple applications (operational support providers) may be able to answer such questions, so a protocol supporting this should be able to handle multiple providers, maintain data between queries about the same execution, and discard information when it is no longer needed.
We present a coloured Petri net model of a protocol satisfying our requirements. The model is used both to make our requirements clear by building a model-based prototype before implementation and to verify that the devised protocol is correct.
We present techniques to make analysis of the large state-space of the model possible, including modeling techniques and an improved state representation for coloured Petri nets allowing explicit representation of state spaces with more than 108 states on a normal PC.
We briefly describe our implementation in the process mining tool ProM and how we have used it to improve an existing provider.
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Westergaard, M., Maggi, F.M. (2011). Modeling and Verification of a Protocol for Operational Support Using Coloured Petri Nets. In: Kristensen, L.M., Petrucci, L. (eds) Applications and Theory of Petri Nets. PETRI NETS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6709. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21834-7_10
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