Formalising Feasibility and Correctness of Distributed Business Processes
Tomasz Janowski6
and Adegboyega Ojo6 
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International Institute for Software Technology, The United Nations University, P.O. Box 3058, Macau |
Abstract
A distributed business process organizes activities by several enterprises to fulfill a given business goal. The purpose of
this paper is to formalise what it means for such a process to be feasible (possible to carry out given the resources delegated
for its execution) and for a feasible process to be correct (satisfying a given business goal), using customer-driven manufacturing
as a particular, although broadly defined business area. Possible applications are: formal analysis of business processes,
providing formal semantics to process modelling languages, and specification and rigorous development of business-support
software.
On leave from the Computer Science Department, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
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