PETRI NET BASED AGENTS FOR COORDINATING RESOURCES IN A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Albert Plà, Pablo Gay, Joaquim Meléndez, Beatriz López

2011

Abstract

We present a new framework for business process management based in a Petri net extension called Resource-Aware Petri Nets. This extension considers resources representation at the application level and allows the monitoring of the whole system with its dependencies. Thus, to solve resource usage conflict, agents are proposed to take care of monitoring workflow instances. This new comprehension of dependencies also allows the creation of a delay prediction system based in historical data from the workflows itself. In this paper we expose our methodology for modeling workflows through our extension which is based in classical approaches. Also a monitoring and delay prediction workflow is introduced and analyzed. In order to test our approach, we have extracted workflows from real cases and tested our framework simulating different kind of situations and resources, getting promising results since our prototype can provide early detection of workflows delays.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Plà A., Gay P., Meléndez J. and López B. (2011). PETRI NET BASED AGENTS FOR COORDINATING RESOURCES IN A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 514-523. DOI: 10.5220/0003196405140523

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Albert Plà and Pablo Gay and Joaquim Meléndez and Beatriz López},
title={PETRI NET BASED AGENTS FOR COORDINATING RESOURCES IN A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={514-523},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003196405140523},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - PETRI NET BASED AGENTS FOR COORDINATING RESOURCES IN A WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Plà A.
AU - Gay P.
AU - Meléndez J.
AU - López B.
PY - 2011
SP - 514
EP - 523
DO - 10.5220/0003196405140523