Petri net as a formalism to assist process improvement in the construction industry

Automation in Construction

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 349-356

  Li, Heng ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Petri nets; Process improvement; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PETRI NETS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; WORKFLOW PROCESSES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 0032075396     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(98)00051-X     Document Type: Article

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