Abstract
BPMN is the standard for business process modeling. It includes a rich set of constructs for control-flow, inter-process communication, and time-related concerns. However, spatial concerns are left apart while being essential to several application domains. We propose a comprehensive extension of BPMN to deal with this. Our proposal includes an integrated notation, a first-order logic semantics of the extension, and tool-supported verification means through the implementation of the semantics in TLA\(^+\). Our tool support and our model database are open source and freely available online.
This work was supported by project PARDI ANR-16-CE25-0006.
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As far as time-related elements are concerned, we take the first, non-deterministic, semantics given in [8].
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The authors would like to thank Markus Alexander Kuppe and Philippe Quéinnec for their help with TLA\(^+\) and the TLA\(^+\) Toolbox.
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Saddem-Yagoubi, R., Poizat, P., Houhou, S. (2021). Business Processes Meet Spatial Concerns: The sBPMN Verification Framework. In: Huisman, M., Păsăreanu, C., Zhan, N. (eds) Formal Methods. FM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_12
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