Verification of Artifact-Centric Systems: Decidability and Modeling Issues
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Abstract. Artifact-centric business processes have recently emerged as an approach in which processes are centred around the evolution of business entities, called artifacts, giving equal importance to control-flow and data. The recent Guard-State-Milestone (GSM) framework provides means for specifying business artifacts lifecycles in a declarative manner, using constructs that match how executive-level stakeholders think about their business. However, it turns out that formal verification of GSM is undecidable even for very simple propositional temporal properties. We attack this challenging problem by translating GSM into a well-studied formal framework. We exploit this translation to isolate an interesting class of “state-bounded” GSM models for which verification of sophisticated temporal properties is decidable. We then introduce some guidelines to turn an arbitrary GSM model into a state-bounded, verifiable model.
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