An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Coloured Petri nets: basic concepts, analysis methods and practical use, vol. 2
Coloured Petri nets: basic concepts, analysis methods and practical use, vol. 2
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
Editorial: problem-solving methods
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Common KADS Library for Expertise Modelling
Common KADS Library for Expertise Modelling
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
The unified problem-solving method development language UPML
Knowledge and Information Systems
Workflow Management Systems and ERP Systems: Differences, Commonalities, and Applications
Information Technology and Management
A TCPN based approach to model the coordination in virtual manufacturing organizations
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Business process management: a survey
BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
OPENET: Ontology-based engine for high-level Petri nets
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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This chapter describes a knowledge-based system approach that combines problem-solving methods, workflow and machine learning technologies for dealing with the furniture estimate task. The system integrates product design in a workflow-oriented solution, and is built over a workflow management system that delegates activities execution to a problem-solving layer. An accurate estimation of the manufacturing cost of a custom furniture client order allows competitive prices, better profits adjustment, and increments the client portfolio too. Nevertheless, task scope is even broader. On one hand, it fixes future material and storage capacity requirements. On the other hand, it defines the manufacturing plan and logistic requirements to fulfil the client order in time. However, these objectives cannot be achieved without an adequate product design, which relates client order requirements with a manufacturing and assembly-oriented design.