Affiliations: [a] Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected]
| [b] Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads 321, 2800 Kgs., Lyngby, Denmark. [email protected]
| [c] Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy. [email protected]
| [d] The University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia. [email protected]
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Address for correspondence: Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Abstract: A model of an information system describes its processes and how resources are involved in these processes to manipulate data objects. This paper presents an extension to the Petri nets formalism suitable for describing information systems in which states refer to object instances of predefined types and resources are identified as instances of special object types. Several correctness criteria for resource- and object-aware information systems models are proposed, supplemented with discussions on their decidability for interesting classes of systems. These new correctness criteria can be seen as generalizations of the classical soundness property of workflow models concerned with process control flow correctness.
Keywords: Information System, Verification, Data Correctness, Resource Correctness
