The domain of Knowledge Intensive Process Improvement (Knowiπ) will be considered in this paper. For the improvement of knowledge intensive processes (KnowiP) we suggest Genetic Algorithms (GAs). The representation needed by the GA depends on the modelling language of KnowiPs. We will use Petrinets for the process modelling and then use the incidence matrix of the corresponding Petrinet as prob...

The problem of scheduling activities dynamic for a project, within the available resources and adhering to precedence relationships is NP hard combinatorial. Traditional approaches and their extensions are limited in application for simultaneous scheduling of resources with leveling. Considering the need for improved modeling and scheduling techniques, this paper proposes the use of Petrinet ba...

WoPeD (Workflow Petrinet Designer) is an easy-to-use, Java-based open source software tool being developed at the University of Cooperative Education, Karlsruhe. WoPeD is able to edit, simulate and analyze workflow nets, providing a useful instrument in particular for research and educational purposes. This paper gives an overview to the current features of the tool, in particular on the newly-...

WoPeD stands for Workflow Petrinet Designer and is an open-source software distributed over the Sourceforge platform. WoPeD’s focus lies on verification, visualization and explanation. Over the years, WoPeD has become a widely-used tool in the academic sector. This demo will provide information about recently added and improved features and functions. The demo will show how to use WoPeD as an e...

WoPeD (Workflow Petrinet Designer) is an open-source, Java-based software product supporting the creation, simulation and analysis of business process models. Over the years, WoPeD has become a widely-used tool in the academic sector, primarily known and used for teaching purposes. To some extent WoPeD is also playing a second role by serving as an experimental software platform for implementin...

In this paper, we introduce the way of deriving hierarchical structure of a workflow model represented in classical Petrinet, even for the cases with cycles, which allows handling a workflow model efficiently. More specifically, our method identifies any block structures as candidates for the subprocesses and represents them as a single block node in the upper layer of the hierarchical model. T...

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is the one, which can be changed or adapted quickly to manufacture different components or products at different volumes of product. Flexible manufacturing system includes – a set of flexible machines, an automatic transport system and a sophisticated database with decision support system, to decide at each instant what is to be done on which machine. The obj...