Possibilistic Interorganizational Workflow Net for the Recovery Problem Concerning Communication Failures

Leiliane Pereira de Rezende, Stéphane Julia, Janette Cardoso

2014

Abstract

In this paper, an approach based on interorganizational WorkFlow nets and on possibilistic Petri nets is proposed to deal with communication failures in business processes. Routing patterns and communication protocols existing in business processes are modeled by interorganizational WorkFlow nets. Possibilistic Petri nets with uncertainty on the marking and on the transition firing are considered to express in a more realistic way the uncertainty attached to communication failures. Combining both formalisms, a kind of possibilistic interorganizational WorkFlow net is obtained. An example of communication failure at a process monitoring level that precedes the presentation of a paper at a conference is presented.

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Pereira de Rezende L., Julia S. and Cardoso J. (2014). Possibilistic Interorganizational Workflow Net for the Recovery Problem Concerning Communication Failures . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-027-7, pages 432-439. DOI: 10.5220/0004863204320439


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@conference{iceis14,
author={Leiliane Pereira de Rezende and Stéphane Julia and Janette Cardoso},
title={Possibilistic Interorganizational Workflow Net for the Recovery Problem Concerning Communication Failures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={432-439},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004863204320439},
isbn={978-989-758-027-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Possibilistic Interorganizational Workflow Net for the Recovery Problem Concerning Communication Failures
SN - 978-989-758-027-7
AU - Pereira de Rezende L.
AU - Julia S.
AU - Cardoso J.
PY - 2014
SP - 432
EP - 439
DO - 10.5220/0004863204320439