DALEC: a framework for the systematic evaluation of data-centric approaches to process management software

S Steinau, A Marrella, K Andrews, F Leotta… - Software & Systems …, 2019 - Springer
The increasing importance of data in business processes has led to the emergence of data-
centric business process management, which deviates from the widely used activity-centric …

Ontologies and data management: a brief survey

T Schneider, M Šimkus - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Information systems have to deal with an increasing amount of data that is
heterogeneous, unstructured, or incomplete. In order to align and complete data, systems …

Petri net-based object-centric processes with read-only data

S Ghilardi, A Gianola, M Montali, A Rivkin - Information Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last decade, various approaches have been put forward to integrate business
processes with different types of data. Each of these approaches reflects specific demands …

Foundations of data-aware process analysis: a database theory perspective

D Calvanese, G De Giacomo, M Montali - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this work we survey the research on foundations of data-aware (business) processes that
has been carried out in the database theory community. We show that this community has …

Verification and monitoring for first-order LTL with persistence-preserving quantification over finite and infinite traces

D Calvanese, G De Giacomo, M Montali… - IJCAI International Joint …, 2022 - iris.uniroma1.it
We address the problem of model checking first-order dynamic systems where new objects
can be injected in the active domain during execution. Notable examples are systems …

Monitoring business metaconstraints based on LTL and LDL for finite traces

G De Giacomo, R De Masellis, M Grasso… - … Conference, BPM 2014 …, 2014 - Springer
Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks to provide operational decision support to
running business processes, and check on-the-fly whether they comply with constraints and …

Db-nets: On the marriage of colored petri nets and relational databases

M Montali, A Rivkin - Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of …, 2017 - Springer
The integrated management of business processes and master data is being increasingly
considered as a fundamental problem, by both the academia and the industry. In this …

SMT safety verification of ontology-based processes

D Calvanese, A Gianola, A Mazzullo… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
In the context of verification of data-aware processes, a formal approach based on
satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) has been considered to verify parameterised safety …

Description logic knowledge and action bases

BB Hariri, D Calvanese, M Montali… - Journal of Artificial …, 2013 - jair.org
Abstract Description logic Knowledge and Action Bases (KAB) are a mechanism for
providing both a semantically rich representation of the information on the domain of interest …

Safety verification and universal invariants for relational action bases

S Ghilardi, A Gianola, M Montali, A Rivkin - Proceedings of the Thirty …, 2023 - air.unimi.it
Modeling and verification of dynamic systems operating over a relational representation of
states are increasingly investigated problems in AI, Business Process Management and …