Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II: Special Issue on Concurrency in Process-Aware Information Systems

Wil M. P. van der Aalst (auth.), Kurt Jensen, Wil M. P. van der Aalst (eds.)3642008984, 9783642008986

Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC) II

These Transactions publish archival papers in the broad area of Petri nets and other models of concurrency, ranging from theoretical work to tool support and industrial applications. ToPNoC issues are published as LNCS volumes, and hence are widely distributed and indexed. This Journal has its own Editorial Board which selects papers based on a rigorous two-stage refereeing process. ToPNoC contains:

– Revised versions of a selection of the best papers from workshops and tutorials at the annual Petri net conferences

– Special sections/issues within particular subareas (similar to those published in the Advances in Petri Nets series)

– Other papers invited for publication in ToPNoC

– Papers submitted directly to ToPNoC by their authors

The second volume of ToPNoC focuses on Concurrency in Process-Aware Information Systems. Although the topic of business process management using information technology has been addressed by consultants and software developers in depth, more fundamental approaches towards such Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) have been rather uncommon. It wasn’t until the 1990s that researchers started to work on the foundations of PAISs. Clearly, concurrency theory is an essential ingredient in these foundations as business processes are highly concurrent involving all types of routing logic and resource allocation mechanisms. The 16 papers in this special issue of ToPNoC cover topics ranging from the formal (mostly Petri-net based) foundations of PAISs to more applied topics such as flexibility and process mining. Thus, this volume gives a good overview of the state of the art in PAIS research.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Process-Aware Information Systems: Lessons to Be Learned from Process Mining….Pages 1-26
Model-Based Software Engineering and Process-Aware Information Systems….Pages 27-45
Petri Net Transformations for Business Processes – A Survey….Pages 46-63
A Look Around the Corner: The Pi-Calculus….Pages 64-78
new YAWL: Towards Workflow 2.0….Pages 79-97
A Formal Model for Organisational Structures behind Process-Aware Information Systems….Pages 98-114
Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems….Pages 115-135
Business Grid: Combining Web Services and the Grid….Pages 136-151
Does My Service Have Partners?….Pages 152-171
Deciding Substitutability of Services with Operating Guidelines….Pages 172-191
A Framework for Linking and Pricing No-Cure-No-Pay Services….Pages 192-207
Empirical Studies in Process Model Verification….Pages 208-224
Process Mining: Overview and Outlook of Petri Net Discovery Algorithms….Pages 225-242
Construction of Process Models from Example Runs….Pages 243-259
Online Interaction Analysis Framework for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Processes in SOA-Based Environments….Pages 260-277
Exploiting Inductive Logic Programming Techniques for Declarative Process Mining….Pages 278-295
Back Matter….Pages –