Cross-organizational collaborative workflow mining from a multi-source log

Q Zeng, SX Sun, H Duan, C Liu, H Wang - Decision support systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Today's enterprise business processes become increasingly complex given that they are
often executed by geographically dispersed partners or different organizations. Designing …

E-net modeling and analysis of emergency response processes constrained by resources and uncertain durations

C Liu, Q Zeng, H Duan, MC Zhou, F Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time and resource management and optimization are two important challenges for an
emergency response process, by which all individuals and groups manage hazards in an …

Modeling and verification for cross-department collaborative business processes using extended Petri nets

QT Zeng, FM Lu, C Liu, H Duan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, cross-department business processes are becoming more and more complex.
Different kinds of coordination patterns exist among different departments, which make …

Petri net based data-flow error detection and correction strategy for business processes

C Liu, Q Zeng, H Duan, L Wang, J Tan, C Ren… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conceptual modeling, which includes both control-flow and data-flow modeling, has posed
great challenges for conventional business process management systems. To support …

A novel statistical time-series pattern based interval forecasting strategy for activity durations in workflow systems

X Liu, Z Ni, D Yuan, Y Jiang, Z Wu, J Chen… - Journal of Systems and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in
workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the process …

Refinement-based hierarchical modeling and correctness verification of cross-organization collaborative emergency response processes

H Duan, C Liu, Q Zeng, M Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When an emergency occurs, one of the important challenges is how to form an effective and
timely response. An emergency disposal plan is usually organized as a series of emergency …

Resource conflict checking and resolution controller design for cross-organization emergency response processes

Q Zeng, C Liu, H Duan, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A group of geographically dispersed and logically collaborated emergency organizations
are involved when emergency occurs. Two challenging issues are a reasonable emergency …

Top-down process mining from multi-source running logs based on refinement of Petri nets

Q Zeng, H Duan, C Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's information systems of enterprises are incredibly complex and typically composed of
a large number of participants. Running logs are a valuable source of information about the …

Resource conflict detection and removal strategy for nondeterministic emergency response processes using Petri nets

Q Zeng, C Liu, H Duan - Enterprise Information Systems, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Correctness of an emergency response process specification is critical to emergency
mission success. Therefore, errors in the specification should be detected and corrected at …

Network-based social coordination of business processes

Z Maamar, N Faci, S Sakr, M Boukhebouze… - Information Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a social coordination approach that addresses the issue of conflicts
over resources during business process execution. A business process consists of tasks that …