Performance Evaluation on Worst Change Time of Flush and SCO Dynamic Changes for State Machine WF-Nets

Shingo YAMAGUCHI
Katsuaki MIYAUCHI
Qi-Wei GE
Minoru TANAKA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.6    pp.1701-1704
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.6.1701
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2005 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC2005))
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Keyword: 
workflow,  dynamic change,  state machine,  

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Summary: 
This paper deals with the performance evaluation of two types of dynamic change, called Flush and SCO (Synthetic Cut-Over), for state machine WF-nets. As an evaluation measure of dynamic change for marked graph WF-nets, change time has been used. We first generalize change time so as to apply it to dynamic change for state machine WF-nets. By using its maximum value, we evaluate the worst-case of dynamic change for state machine WF-nets. We call the maximum value as worst change time. Then under the same assumptions as our previous studies, we give methods of calculating worst change time of Flush and SCO dynamic changes. We also clarify the relation on worst change time between them. Finally we evaluate them by comparing the values of worst change time for an actual example of dynamic change.


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