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Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Free-Choice Workflow Petri Nets (Invited Talk)

Author Javier Esparza

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  • Free-choice Petri Nets
  • concurrency theory
  • quantitative verification

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Abstract

We survey recent results on the development of efficient algorithms for the quantitative analysis of business processes modeled as workflow Petri nets. The algorithms can be applied to any workflow net, but have polynomial runtime in the free-choice case.

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Javier Esparza. Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Free-Choice Workflow Petri Nets (Invited Talk). In 24th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 90, pp. 2:1-2:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2017.2

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