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  • WF-Net Based Modeling and Soundness Verification of Interworkflows

    Shingo YAMAGUCHI  Hajime MATSUO  Qi-Wei GE  Minoru TANAKA  

     
    PAPER

      Vol:
    E90-A No:4
      Page(s):
    829-835

    This paper deals with WF-net based modeling and verification of interorganizational workflows (interworkflows for short) based on the protocol of WfMC. In the protocol, there are three patterns of interoperability: Chained, Nested, and Parallel synchronized; and an interworkflow is constructed by using those interoperability patterns. We first give a WF-net based modeling method. In this modeling method, the three interoperability patterns are respectively expressed in terms of WF-nets. They enable us to model a given interworkflow as a WF-net by connecting WF-nets representing its constituent workflows. We also indicate that if free choice WF-nets are connected by means of any combination of the three patterns then the resultant WF-net is asymmetric choice. Next we discuss verification of WF-nets obtained through the modeling method. Intuitively, a WF-net is said to be sound if, for any case, the initial state is always transformed to the final state. Unfortunately, even if every constituent WF-net is sound FC, the resultant WF-net is not always sound. We give a sufficient condition of non-soundness checkable in polynomial time. We also show that if they are connected by only the Nested pattern then the resultant WF-net is sound.