The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) has received a great amount of attention in recent years. In the NSP, the goal is to assign shifts to the nurses in order to satisfy the hospital’s demand during the planning horizon by considering different objective functions. In this research, we focus on maximizing the nurses’ preferences for working shifts and weekends off by considering several important...

A model of P systems with symport / antiport rules is given in terms of hypernets, a generalization of a class of hierarchical Petri nets introduced for modeling mobility inside the nets-within-nets paradigm. The hierarchical structure of a P system is reflected by the associated hypernet, where molecules are modeled by unstructured agents (simple tokens) and membranes by agents. Each agent is ...

Service-oriented computing provides a suitable technological foundation for developing and executing dynamic business processes. However, most current approaches for composition languages and architectures for dynamic process integration do not provide the flexibility and dynamism required by interorganisational evolving environments. In this work, the DENEB platform for the development and exe...

Nested Petri nets (NP-nets) is an extension of the Petri nets formalism within the nets-within-nets approach, allowing to model systems of interacting dynamic agents in a natural way. One of the main problems in verifying of such systems is the State Explosion Problem. To tackle this problem for highly concurrent systems the unfolding method has proved to be very helpful. In this paper we conti...