Use of Adaptive Coloured Petri Network in Support of Decision Making

摘要

This work presents the use of Adaptive Coloured Petri Net (ACPN) in support of decisionmaking. ACPN is an extension of the Coloured Petri Net (CPN) that allows you to change thenetwork topology. Usually, experts in a particular field can establish a set of rules for theproper functioning of a business or even a manufacturing process. On the other hand, it ispossible that the same specialist has difficulty in incorporating this set of rules into a CPN thatdescribes and follows the operation of the enterprise and, at the same time, adheres to the rulesof good performance. To incorporate the rules of the expert into a CPN, the set of rules from theIF - THEN format to the extended adaptive decision table format is transformed into a set ofrules that are dynamically incorporated to APN. The contribution of this paper is the use ofACPN to establish a method that allows the use of proven procedures in one area of knowledge(decision tables) in another area of knowledge (Petri nets and Workflows), making possible theadaptation of techniques and paving the way for new kind of analysis.