Behavioural Models

Mathias Weske is chair of the business process technology research group at Hasso Plattner Institute of IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The research group addresses real-world BPM problems with formal approaches and engineers useful prototypes. His research focuses on process oriented information systems, decision management, and event handling.Matthias Kunze is a senior business process manager at Zalando SE. Before joining Zalando in 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the research group of Mathias Weske at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Besides his contributions to many practical aspects of BPM, his research work focussed on the behavioural analysis of business process models. Matthias Kunze received his PhD in 2013 for his dissertation on searching business process models.

• 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.

“In this book, which is primarily a textbook for graduate students, Kunze and Weske present conceptual tools required to develop such a model. … The authors provide bibliographical notes at the end of each chapter. This and the use of the same set of examples make the book quite easy to read and follow. Its comprehensive list of references has more than 70 entries. It is an excellent text.” (Anoop Malaviya, Computing Reviews, February, 2017)