Nowadays an increasing number of workflow products and research prototypes begin to adopt XML for representing workflow models owing to its easy use and well understanding for people and machines. However, most of wor...Nowadays an increasing number of workflow products and research prototypes begin to adopt XML for representing workflow models owing to its easy use and well understanding for people and machines. However, most of workflow products and research prototypes provide the few supports for the verification of XML-based workflow model, such as free-deadlock properties, which is essential to successful application of workflow technology. In this paper, we tackle this problem by mapping the XML-based workflow model into Petri-net, a kind of well-known formalism for modeling, analyzing and verifying system. As a result, the XML-based workflow model can be automatically verified with the help of general Petri-net tools, such as DANAMICS. The presented approach not only enables end users to represent workflow model with XML-based modeling language, but also the correctness of model can be ensured, thus satisfying the needs of business processes.展开更多
The semantic of JOIN in workflow process definition language WPDL is analyzed and studied. It points outthat there is a problem about AND-JOIN. To solve the problem, the synchronized semantic of AND-JOIN in extend-ed ...The semantic of JOIN in workflow process definition language WPDL is analyzed and studied. It points outthat there is a problem about AND-JOIN. To solve the problem, the synchronized semantic of AND-JOIN in extend-ed Xinpai-driven model is defined formally. It puts forward the concepts of synchronizedarea and asynchronizedarea. It gives the solution of true-and-false token rules in synchronized area and true token rules in asychronized area,and some other issues arisen from the solution are studied systematically and completely. The constrain issues of con-trol structures in synchronized area and asynchronized area are discussed, and its solution is put forward. Finally, thealgorithm of how to find the focus point and synchronized area is given.展开更多
文摘Nowadays an increasing number of workflow products and research prototypes begin to adopt XML for representing workflow models owing to its easy use and well understanding for people and machines. However, most of workflow products and research prototypes provide the few supports for the verification of XML-based workflow model, such as free-deadlock properties, which is essential to successful application of workflow technology. In this paper, we tackle this problem by mapping the XML-based workflow model into Petri-net, a kind of well-known formalism for modeling, analyzing and verifying system. As a result, the XML-based workflow model can be automatically verified with the help of general Petri-net tools, such as DANAMICS. The presented approach not only enables end users to represent workflow model with XML-based modeling language, but also the correctness of model can be ensured, thus satisfying the needs of business processes.
文摘The semantic of JOIN in workflow process definition language WPDL is analyzed and studied. It points outthat there is a problem about AND-JOIN. To solve the problem, the synchronized semantic of AND-JOIN in extend-ed Xinpai-driven model is defined formally. It puts forward the concepts of synchronizedarea and asynchronizedarea. It gives the solution of true-and-false token rules in synchronized area and true token rules in asychronized area,and some other issues arisen from the solution are studied systematically and completely. The constrain issues of con-trol structures in synchronized area and asynchronized area are discussed, and its solution is put forward. Finally, thealgorithm of how to find the focus point and synchronized area is given.
