Use of Adaptive Coloured Petri Network in Support of Decision Making

Abstract

This work presents the use of Adaptive Coloured Petri Net (ACPN) in support of decision making. ACPN is an extension of the Coloured Petri Net (CPN) that allows you to change the network topology. Usually, experts in a particular field can establish a set of rules for the proper functioning of a business or even a manufacturing process. On the other hand, it is possible that the same specialist has difficulty in incorporating this set of rules into a CPN that describes and follows the operation of the enterprise and, at the same time, adheres to the rules of good performance. To incorporate the rules of the expert into a CPN, the set of rules from the IF -THEN format to the extended adaptive decision table format is transformed into a set of rules that are dynamically incorporated to APN. The contribution of this paper is the use of ACPN 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 the adaptation of techniques and paving the way for new kind of analysis.