Generating of business rules for Coloured Petri Nets

Business rules are crucial and most adaptive to their related business process. These business rules define and constrain the workflow logic of the business process. Thus, it is important to verify the business rules to ensure their correctness and consistency properties. Alternatively, the topology modeling of a workflow would be formalized into a Coloured Petri Nets. However, the business rules are mostly left behind. In this paper, an alternative scheme to generate business rules into CPN ML functions for Coloured Petri Nets is proposed. The business analyst would simply define the business rules in form of IF-THEN rules without writing programming code. Then, the predefined CPN ML template is used to generate the corresponding business rule functions and the functions would be automatically inscribed into the Coloured Petri Nets. The resulting formal model of the workflow of the business process is completely drawn with the valid CPN ML functions inscription of the given business rules. The CPN Tools is used to verify this resulting Coloured Petri Nets.