Performance equivalent analysis of workflow systems based on stochastic Petri net models

    Authors

    L. Chuang; Q. Yang; F. Y. Ren;D. C. Marinescu

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    Keywords

    workflow management systems; Stochastic Petri nets; performance; equivalence; performance analysis; Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Software; Engineering; Computer Science, Theory & Methods

    Abstract

    Performance analysis is one of the most important aspects in workflow management system. In this paper, we propose the stochastic Petri nets workflow model (WF-SPN), which is the extension of WF-net. Based on our model, we give four performance equivalent formulae for four basic routing pattern of workflow system. Then, we put forward an approximate performance analysis method on the base of our performance equivalent formulae. An example illustrates our method can solve real-world problems efficiently.

    Journal Title

    Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems, Proceedings

    Volume

    2480

    Publication Date

    1-1-2002

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    64

    Last Page

    79

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000187254100005

    ISSN

    0302-9743; 3-540-44222-7

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