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).