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Information Gathering and Process Modeling in a Petri Net Based Approach

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Business Process Management

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Petri nets are seen as a suitable process modeling language since they lead to graphical process descriptions that can be understood by different people, since formal process analysis can be performed, and enaction of processes can be done on the basis of a process model described by Petri nets. We have developed a Petri net based process modeling language and applied it to various practical projects. From the experiences we have derived new concepts and techniques in order to enhance our approach. In this paper we mainly discuss two aspects (1) modeling semi-structured process parts and (2) gathering the relevant information to be put into process models.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Software- and Systems Engineering, P.O. Box 520 130, FRG- 44207, Dortmund

    Wolfgang Deiters

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  1. Faculty of Technology and Management, Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil van der Aalst

  2. Mathematisch-Geographische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Informatik, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Ostenstraße 28, 85072, Eichstätt, Germany

    Jörg Desel

  3. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Postfach 111932, 60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andreas Oberweis

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Deiters, W. (2000). Information Gathering and Process Modeling in a Petri Net Based Approach. In: van der Aalst, W., Desel, J., Oberweis, A. (eds) Business Process Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45594-9_17

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