Analyzing E-Commerce Business Process Nets via Incidence Matrix and Reduction
针对电子商务业务流程网这一新型形式化模型，提出基于三维关联矩阵的可达性分析方法和针对特殊网的约简方法，并用实例验证了方法的有效性和可靠性。
E-commerce business process nets (EBPNs) are a novel formal model for describing and validating e-commerce systems including interactive parties such as shopper, merchant, and third-party payment platform. Data errors and nondeterminacy of the data states during the trading process can be depicted with the help of EBPNs. However, the problem about how to analyze EBPNs remains largely open. To analyze their data-liveness, data-boundedness, and reachability, this paper presents two analysis methods. For EBPNs, reachability analysis is proposed based on a 3-D incidence matrix method. Additionally, reduction methods are proposed for a special EBPN. Finally, the validity and reliability of the proposed methods are illustrated via the examples of e-commerce systems.