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We present an extension of the recently introduced declarative process model Dynamic Condition Response Graphs (DCR Graphs) to allow nested sub-graphs and a new milestone relation between events. The extension was developed during a case study carried out jointly with our industrial partner Exformatics, a danish provider of case and workflow management systems. We formalize the semantics by giving first a map from Nested to (flat) DCR Graphs with milestones, and then extending the previously given mapping from DCR Graphs to Büchi-automata to include the milestone relation.
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Hildebrandt, T., Mukkamala, R.R., Slaats, T. (2012). Nested Dynamic Condition Response Graphs. In: Arbab, F., Sirjani, M. (eds) Fundamentals of Software Engineering. FSEN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29320-7_23
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