Time Interval Workflow Nets.

Published in Volume XV, 2005, pages 77-92

Authors: Oana Otilia PRISECARU, Toader JUCAN and Inga CAMERZAN

Abstract

Workflow technology is widely used in order to offer companies a solution for managing
business processes that take place inside one organization. Time management is
an important component for business processes; in a workflow management system there
is a delay beetween the moment an activity becomes enabled and the moment the activity
is executed by a certain resource. In this paper Time Interval Workflow Nets are introduced,
allowing the modelling of time delays and deadlines for the execution of activities in the
workflow process. The notion of soundness for untimed workflow nets is extended for Time
Interval Workflow Nets and a characterisation of this property is given for two particular
classes of Time Interval Workflow Nets. It is shown that the soundness property for these
classes can be reduced to the soundness property of the skeleton workflow net and can be
verified by checking the boundness and liveness properties for an untimed Petri net.
Therefore, in these cases, the soundness property is decidable and can be checked in
the same way as for workflow nets.

Bibtex

@article{sacscuza:otilia2005tiwn,
  title={Time Interval Workflow Nets.},
  author={Oana Otilia PRISECARU and Toader JUCAN and Inga CAMERZAN},
  journal={Scientific Annals of Computer Science},
  volume={15},
  organization={``A.I. Cuza'' University, Iasi, Romania},
  year={2005},
  pages={77--92},
  publisher={``A.I. Cuza'' University Press}
}