Abstract
Many processes are characterized by high variability, making traditional process modeling languages cumbersome or even impossible to be used for their description. This is especially true in cooperative environments relying heavily on human knowledge. Declarative languages, like Declare, alleviate this issue by not describing what to do step by step but by defining a set of constraints between actions that must not be violated during the process execution. Furthermore, in modern cooperative business, time is of utmost importance. Therefore, declarative process models should be able to take this dimension into consideration. Timed Declare has already previously been introduced to monitor temporal constraints at runtime, but it has until now only been possible to provide an alert when a constraint has already been violated without the possibility of foreseeing and avoiding such violations. Moreover, the existing definitions of Timed Declare do not support the static detection of time-wise inconsistencies. In this paper, we introduce an extended version of Timed Declare with a formal timed semantics for the entire language. The semantics degenerates to the untimed semantics in the expected way. We also introduce a translation to timed automata, which allows us to detect inconsistencies in models prior to execution and to early detect that a certain task is time sensitive. This means that either the task cannot be executed after a deadline (or before a latency), or that constraints are violated unless it is executed before (or after) a certain time. This makes it possible to use declarative process models to provide a priori guidance instead of just a posteriori detecting that an execution is invalid.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 (Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I) |
Editors | R. Meersman |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 250-267 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-33605-8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2012 - Rome, Italy Duration: 12 Sept 2012 → 14 Sept 2012 Conference number: 20 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Volume | 7565 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2012 |
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Abbreviated title | CoopIs 2012 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Rome |
Period | 12/09/12 → 14/09/12 |
Other | CoopIS 2012 |