IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
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Superclass Extraction Problem of Workflow Nets and a Solution Procedure Based on Process Mining Technique
Shingo YAMAGUCHI
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2016 Volume E99.A Issue 9 Pages 1700-1707

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An organization may have two or more similar workflows as a result of workflow evolutions or mergers and acquisitions. We should grasp the common behavior of those workflows to consolidate the management of them and/or to do business process reengineering. Workflows can be modeled as a particular class of Petri nets, called workflow nets. The common behavior of two or more workflow nets can be represented as a superclass under the behavioral inheritance of those workflow nets. In this paper, we tackled a problem of extracting a superclass from two workflow nets, named Superclass Extraction problem. We first gave a definition of the problem. Next we proposed a procedure to solve the problem on the basis of process mining technique. Then we gave an application of the proposed procedure.

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