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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Behavioural Models
    sub title: From Modelling Finite Automata to Analysing Business Processes
  name:
    name part: Kunze, Matthias.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Weske, Mathias.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 279 p. 177 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This textbook introduces the basis for modelling and analysing discrete dynamic systems, such as computer programmes, soft- and hardware systems, and business processes. The underlying concepts are introduced and concrete modelling techniques are described, such as finite automata, state machines, and Petri nets. The concepts are related to concrete application scenarios, among which business processes play a prominent role. The book consists of three parts, the first of which addresses the foundations of behavioural modelling. After a general introduction to modelling, it introduces transition systems as a basic formalism for representing the behaviour of discrete dynamic systems. This section also discusses causality, a fundamental concept for modelling and reasoning about behaviour. In turn, Part II forms the heart of the book and is devoted to models of behaviour. It details both sequential and concurrent systems and introduces finite automata, state machines and several different types of Petri nets. One chapter is especially devoted to business process models, workflow patterns and BPMN, the industry standard for modelling business processes. Lastly, Part III investigates how the behaviour of systems can be analysed. To this end, it introduces readers to the concept of state spaces. Further chapters cover the comparison of behaviour and the formal analysis and verification of behavioural models. The book was written for students of computer science and software engineering, as well as for programmers and system analysts interested in the behaviour of the systems they work on. It takes readers on a journey from the fundamentals of behavioural modelling to advanced techniques for modelling and analysing sequential and concurrent systems, and thus provides them a deep understanding of the concepts and techniques introduced and how they can be applied to concrete application scenarios.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Discrete Dynamic Systems -- 3 Sequential Systems -- 4 Concurrent Systems -- 5 Business Process Models -- 6 State Spaces -- 7 Comparing Behaviour -- 8 Verification -- References -- Index.
  note: by Matthias Kunze, Mathias Weske.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Computer simulation
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computation by Abstract Devices
  subject:
    topic: Simulation and Modeling
  subject:
    topic: Business Process Management
  classification: QA76.758
  classification: 005.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319449609
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44960-9
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