A computational tool that supports formal diagnosis of process design

TY - JOUR

T1 - A computational tool that supports formal diagnosis of process design

AU - Ramos, P.

AU - Fiadeiro, J.L.

N1 - Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.

PY - 1998/10/15

Y1 - 1998/10/15

N2 - Computational tools that support process design have been used widely in organisation. These tools usually provide methods and notations (formal or diagrammatic) that are used to describe and simulate the behaviour of processes, and validate them with the users. The validation procedure supports mainly syntax validation and consistency analysis against organisation constraints (structure, tasks, documents, etc.). No further analysis is made with regard to the compliance of a process design with respect to organisational requirements. In this paper we present a software tool which detects designs that do not accomplish prerequisites supplied by the organisation. The software tool is supported by formal techniques from artificial intelligence and computer science.

AB - Computational tools that support process design have been used widely in organisation. These tools usually provide methods and notations (formal or diagrammatic) that are used to describe and simulate the behaviour of processes, and validate them with the users. The validation procedure supports mainly syntax validation and consistency analysis against organisation constraints (structure, tasks, documents, etc.). No further analysis is made with regard to the compliance of a process design with respect to organisational requirements. In this paper we present a software tool which detects designs that do not accomplish prerequisites supplied by the organisation. The software tool is supported by formal techniques from artificial intelligence and computer science.

U2 - 10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00082-2

DO - 10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00082-2

M3 - Article

SN - 0950-5849

VL - 40

SP - 555

EP - 565

JO - Information and Software Technology

JF - Information and Software Technology

IS - 10

ER -