Woflan 2.0: a Petri-net-based workflow diagnosis tool

  • Authors:
  • Eric Verbeek;Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN'00 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Application and theory of petri nets
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Workflow management technology promises a flexible solution facilitating the easy creation of new business processes and modification of existing ones. Unfortunately, most of today's workflow products allow for erroneous processes to be put in production: these products lack proper verificationmechanisms in their process-definition tools for the created or modified processes. This paper presents the workflow diagnosis tool Woflan, which fills this gap. Using Petri-net based techniques, Woflan diagnoses process definitions before they are put into production. These process definitions can be imported from commercial workflow products. Furthermore, Woflan guides the modeler of a workflow process definition towards finding and correcting possible errors.