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Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets Based Components for Workflow Systems  

Zhou Feng (School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology)
Bo Rui-Feng (School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology)
Huang Hong-Zhong (School of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Ling Dan (School of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Miao Qiang (School of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Publication Information
Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology / v.20, no.10, 2006 , pp. 1527-1533 More about this Journal
Abstract
Workflow systems have benefited the enterprise and customer in many aspects. But with the increasing complexity of the system, workflow design becomes a complicated and time-consuming process. In this paper, we model the system based on the Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets (HCPN) to avoid the complexity of the system, and the super nets of the model are abstracted as independent components to increase the flexibility, acceptability and maintainability of the system. Another important characteristic of this model is its convenience for reuse and workflow mining. The development process of the overhead traveling crane was given to demonstrate the proposed method.
Keywords
Workflow; Component; Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets; Workflow Mining;
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