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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 verification mechanisms 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 work-flow products. Furthermore, Woflan guides the modeler of a workflow process definition towards finding and correcting possible errors.
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Verbeek, E., van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2000). Woflan 2.0 A Petri-Net-Based Workflow Diagnosis Tool. In: Nielsen, M., Simpson, D. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets 2000. ICATPN 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1825. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44988-4_28
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