The quality of business processes can be checked by verifying their compliance with specific quality constraints. These constraints represent a set of required temporal and logical relationships between different steps of business processes. Quality constraints are usually formulated as informal texts, which makes them difficult to be verified, when business processes become complex. One way to solve this problem is by automating the verification of quality constraints on business processes by applying model checking. To apply model checking, both business processes and quality constraints have to be formalized. In this paper, we define a new visual language for modeling quality constraints and we provide a pattern-based translation for quality constraint models into Computation Tree Logic formulas.
For upcoming Cyber Physical Systems with a high need of adaptation to changing environments an appropriate programming approach is needed. In this paper we argue that such systems have to be highly adaptive and self-evolving. The general vision and approach is pointed out. Furthermore specific approaches solving important aspects of such a programming paradigm are presented. The aspects discussed include the identification of adaptation needs using online Model Checking, real-time-aware adaptation mechanisms, and self-adapting safety guards by means of Artificial Immune Systems.
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