Paper Info
Title
Unified modelling and analysis of collaboration business process based on Petri nets and Pi calculus
Abstract
Collaboration business processes enable organisations to communicate, interact and cooperate with each other to achieve their business goals. It becomes more and more important to model and analyse collaboration business processes to guarantee their correctness and consistence. Among various formal methods, Petri nets have become one of the major formal methods due to its strong mathematical foundation, rich analysis techniques and graphical representations. Pi calculus, a branch of process algebra, has been proved to be more capable in modelling interactions and mobility. In this paper, we introduce a mapping model between these two formal methods, which integrates the local flow model of Petri nets and the interaction model of Pi calculus to describe collaboration business processes. The state graphs of Petri nets and Pi calculus are combined together to analyse the structure soundness of the unified model. A collaborative reduction tool is developed to support the unified modelling and analysis method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1049/iet-sen.2008.0062
Software, IET
Keywords
Field
DocType
Petri nets,business data processing,groupware,pi calculus,Petri nets,Pi calculus,collaboration business process,formal methods,graphical representation,local flow model,mapping model,mathematical foundation,process algebra,rich analysis techniques,unified modelling analysis
Lambda calculus,Petri net,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Business process,Concurrency,Computer science,Correctness,Process architecture,Artificial intelligence,Formal methods,Process calculus
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
5
1751-8806
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.52
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Zhang14110.80
Yanping Lu2286.08
Feng Xu344869.80