An Extended Petri net for Modeling Workflow with Critical Sections

  • Authors:
  • Yehia Thabet Kotb;Andre Stephan Baumgart

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Mannheim;University of Mannheim

  • Venue:
  • ICEBE '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This work presents an extended workflow petri net which synchronizes activity flow in the critical sections of the process. A critical section is a non empty set of tasks that cannot serve more than one activity at a time. The structure of the proposed net is introduced and a theorem is proposed and proved for the properties of separability and serializability. A fully detailed model for the operation theater in a hospital is presented using the proposed theoretical structure to control concurrency between activities in the critical sections.