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On the Completeness of Logic-Based Workflow Verification


J. Leon Zhao


affiliation not provided to SSRN

Henry H. Bi


Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University

2003

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2003), pp. 73-78, Seattle, WA, USA, December 13-14, 2003

Abstract:     
The increasing complexity of business processes makes workflow design a challenging task. However, most of commercial workflow management systems do not provide workflow designers with workflow verification tools. We propose a logic-based verification approach that is based on propositional logic as an alternative to existing workflow verification methods. We have shown previously that logic-based workflow verification can verify the correctness of both acyclic and cyclic workflow graphs that do not contain overlapping patterns. In this paper, we extend our previous work to handle overlapping patterns by proposing the idea of instance-based logic formulas and prove its completeness in detecting structural anomalies in acyclic workflow graphs.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 6

Keywords: workflow, verification

JEL Classification: M1

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Date posted: March 1, 2010  

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Zhao, J. Leon and Bi, Henry H., On the Completeness of Logic-Based Workflow Verification (2003). Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2003), pp. 73-78, Seattle, WA, USA, December 13-14, 2003. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1561316

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J. Leon Zhao
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Henry H. Bi (Contact Author)
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University ( email )
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
United States
503-370-6225 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://www.willamette.edu/agsm/faculty_directory/bi.htm
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