Extended event-condition-action rules and fuzzy Petri nets based exception handling for workflow management

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 10847-10861

  Ye, Yan ^a,b   Jiang, Zhibin ^a   Diao, Xiaodi ^c   Du, Gang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Shanghai Putuo District Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Exception handling; Generalized fuzzy event condition action rule; Typed fuzzy Petri net extended by process knowledge; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; BACKWARD REASONING; BUSINESS PROCESS; DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES; DYNAMIC WORKFLOW; EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION RULE; EXCEPTION HANDLING; FORWARD REASONING; FUZZY EVENTS; FUZZY KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY PETRI NETS; GENERALIZED FUZZY EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION RULE; GOAL CONCEPT; KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE MODEL; PROCESS KNOWLEDGE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REASONING PROBLEMS; TYPED FUZZY PETRI NET EXTENDED BY PROCESS KNOWLEDGE; WEIGHTED FUZZY REASONING; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW PROCESS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 79955634807     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.097     Document Type: Article

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