Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, Volume 2480/2002, 62-66, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45785-2_3

Linear Temporal Inference of Workflow Management Systems Based on Timed Petri Nets Models

Q U Yang, L I N Chuang and W A N G Jiye

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Abstract

In recent years a significant body of research has been dedicated to the analysis and verification of workflows without taking into account the temporal dimension of activities involved. Once the temporal aspects of the activities in a process description are taken into account, various types of synchronization anomalies and other undesirable behavior may be detected. In this paper, we use a timed Petri nets to represent workflows and introduce a set of linear inference algorithms for the quantitative analysis of temporal constraints of workflows. We apply our models to the analysis of several workflow patterns.

Key Words  Workflow - timed Petri nets - temporal - linear inference

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.90104002 and 60173012) and the Projects of Development Plan of the State Key Fundamental Research (No.G1999032707).

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