Karima Mahdi; Raida Elmansouri; Allaoua Chaoui

On Transforming Business Patterns to Labeled Petri Nets Using Graph Grammars

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Karima Mahdi ^1,* Raida Elmansouri ¹ Allaoua Chaoui ¹

1. MISC Laboratory, Department of Computer, Faculty of Engineering, University Mentouri Constantine, Algeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2013.02.02

Received: 13 Apr. 2012 / Revised: 20 Sep. 2012 / Accepted: 9 Nov. 2012 / Published: 8 Jan. 2013

Index Terms

Business Patterns, Labelled Petri Nets, Meta-Models, Graph Transformation

Abstract

In this work we present an approach and a tool for transforming business patterns to labelled Petri nets. This transformation is justified by the fact that Petri nets have efficient analysis techniques. We specify first, business patterns and labelled Petri nets Meta-Models in UML Class Diagram formalism with the Meta-Modelling tool Atom3, and then we generate visual modelling tools according to the proposed Meta-Models. Finally, we define a graph grammar which transforms Business Patterns models to Labelled Petri Nets model for analysis purposes. The approach is illustrated with examples.

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Karima Mahdi, Raida Elmansouri, Allaoua Chaoui, "On Transforming Business Patterns to Labeled Petri Nets Using Graph Grammars", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.5, no.2, pp.15-27, 2013. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2013.02.02

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