On the Use of Meta-Modelling and Graph Grammars to Generate Petri Nets Models for Business Processes


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Abstract


In business process modeling, there are several potential control flow problems that, if not detected prior to workflow deployment may lead to control flow anomalies and behavioral inconsistencies like deadlock, livelock, imperfect termination, and multiple task repetitions. Petri Nets provide a powerful formal modeling method based on solid mathematical fundament while having graphical representation of system models as net diagrams and provide various analysis techniques such as reachability tree, incidence matrix and invariant analysis method, through which properties of the Petri Net model such as liveness, reachability and deadlock can be analyzed. Since business processes and Petri net models are graphs, Meta-Modeling and Graph grammars seems to be a natural way to transform business processes to their equivalent Petri nets models. In this paper we propose an  automatic approach based on Meta-Modeling and Graph grammars to generate Petri net models for business processes using AToM3. The approach is illustrated through an example.
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AToM3; Business Process Modeling; Petri nets; Meta-Modeling; Graph grammars

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