Title
Monitoring business constraints with the event calculus
Abstract
Today, large business processes are composed of smaller, autonomous, interconnected subsystems, achieving modularity and robustness. Quite often, these large processes comprise software components as well as human actors, they face highly dynamic environments and their subsystems are updated and evolve independently of each other. Due to their dynamic nature and complexity, it might be difficult, if not impossible, to ensure at design-time that such systems will always exhibit the desired/expected behaviors. This, in turn, triggers the need for runtime verification and monitoring facilities. These are needed to check whether the actual behavior complies with expected business constraints, internal/external regulations and desired best practices. In this work, we present Mobucon EC, a novel monitoring framework that tracks streams of events and continuously determines the state of business constraints. In Mobucon EC, business constraints are defined using the declarative language Declare. For the purpose of this work, Declare has been suitably extended to support quantitative time constraints and non-atomic, durative activities. The logic-based language Event Calculus (EC) has been adopted to provide a formal specification and semantics to Declare constraints, while a light-weight, logic programming-based EC tool supports dynamically reasoning about partial, evolving execution traces. To demonstrate the applicability of our approach, we describe a case study about maritime safety and security and provide a synthetic benchmark to evaluate its scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2542182.2542199
ACM TIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
ec tool,declare constraint,dynamic environment,declarative language,business constraint,event calculus,expected business constraint,mobucon ec,monitoring business constraint,expected behavior,dynamic nature,large business process,process mining,runtime verification
Data mining,Event calculus,Business process,Computer science,Formal specification,Runtime verification,Logic programming,Declarative programming,Business activity monitoring,Process mining
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
2157-6904
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
54
1.30
27
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Montali1128099.36
Fabrizio M. Maggi22147.56
federico chesani380146.41
Paola Mello444421.33
Wil Van Der Aalst5208941418.27