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A Holistic Approach for Soundness Verification of Decision-Aware Process Models (extended version)
The last decade has witnessed an increasing transformation in the design,
engineering, and mining of processes, moving from a pure control-flow
perspective to more integrated models where also data and decisions are
explicitly considered. This calls for methods and techniques able to ascertain
the correctness of such integrated models. Differently from previous
approaches, which mainly focused on the local interplay between decisions and
their corresponding outgoing branches, we introduce a holistic approach to
verify the end-to-end soundness of a Petri net-based process model, enriched
with case data and decisions. In particular, we present an effective,
implemented technique that verifies soundness by translating the input net into
a colored Petri net with bounded color domains, which can then be analyzed
using conventional tools. We prove correctness and termination of this
technique. In addition, we relate our contribution to recent results on
decision-aware soundness, showing that our approach can be readily applied
there