A Logic-Based Method for Business Process Knowledge Base Management
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In this paper we present the BPAL platform aimed at the management of Business Process Knowledge Bases. It includes a logic-based language for BP modeling and a reasoning mechanism providing support to BP designers in several services. Firstly, the definition of a BP meta-model (MM) consisting of a set of rules that guide the BP designers in their work. Secondly, given a BP, the BPAL platform allows for the automatic verification of the compliance of a given BP w.r.t. the defined MM. Finally, the execution semantics of a BP is given in term of its instances (referred to as traces) to provide two basic services; checking if an execution of a BP has been carried out in accordance with the corresponding definition (process log analysis); simulating possible executions by automatic traces generation. The proposed platform is open since the meta-model can be easily modified to codify different classes of BP, to comply with specific needs of an enterprise.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010