Introducing the guard-stage-milestone approach for specifying business entity lifecycles

R Hull, E Damaggio, F Fournier, M Gupta… - Web Services and …, 2011 - Springer
A promising approach to managing business operations is based on business entities with
lifecycles (BEL's)(aka business artifacts), ie, key conceptual entities that are central to …

Business artifacts with guard-stage-milestone lifecycles: managing artifact interactions with conditions and events

R Hull, E Damaggio, R De Masellis, F Fournier… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
A promising approach to managing business operations is based on business artifacts, aka
business entities (with lifecycles). These are key conceptual entities that are central to …

Verification of relational data-centric dynamic systems with external services

B Bagheri Hariri, D Calvanese, G De Giacomo… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Data-centric dynamic systems are systems where both the process controlling the dynamics
and the manipulation of data are equally central. We study verification of (first-order) mu …

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 …

On the equivalence of incremental and fixpoint semantics for business artifacts with Guard–Stage–Milestone lifecycles

E Damaggio, R Hull, R Vaculín - Information Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Business artifacts (or simply, artifacts) are used to model conceptual entities that are central
to guiding the operations of a business, and whose content changes as they move through …

Linear-time verification of data-aware dynamic systems with arithmetic

P Felli, M Montali, S Winkler - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Combined modeling and verification of dynamic systems and the data they operate on has
gained momentum in AI and in several application domains. We investigate the expressive …

Data management perspectives on business process management: tutorial overview

R Hull, J Su, R Vaculin - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMOD …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Traditional approaches to Business Process Management (BPM) focus primarily on the
process aspects, and treat the persistent data accessed and manipulated by the business …

SMT-based verification of data-aware processes: a model-theoretic approach

D Calvanese, S Ghilardi, A Gianola… - … Structures in Computer …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In recent times, satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) techniques gained increasing attention
and obtained remarkable success in model-checking infinite-state systems. Still, we believe …

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 …

Formal modeling and SMT-based parameterized verification of data-aware BPMN

D Calvanese, S Ghilardi, A Gianola, M Montali… - … Conference, BPM 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
We propose DAB–a data-aware extension of BPMN where the process operates over case
and persistent data (partitioned into a read-only database called catalog and a read-write …