Free-choice nets, a subclass of Petri have been studied for decades. They are interesting because they many desirable properties normal nets do not and can be analyzed efficiently. Although the majority process models used in practice inherently free-choice, most users (even modeling experts) aware free-choice net theory associated analysis techniques. This paper discusses context mining busine...

This paper attempted to explore the expectation level of individuals to match themselves with the career offers and their awareness level to make the right decision in choosing right career in an economy of unemployment problems especially among the educated persons. This descriptive analytical research work is done on the basis of perceptions of students of different levels of education. The s...

The aim of this chapter is to investigate the decision process of manufacturing systems (MSs) under uncertain conditions. The decision process needs a systematic approach to structure the system requirements and highlight the management preferences while considering vague criteria. In order to establish a suitable empirical approach for the decision process compatible with the current/future re...

Various best-choice problems related to the planar homogeneous Poisson process in finite or semi-infinite rectangle are studied. The analysis is largely based on properties of the onedimensional box-area process associated with the sequence of records. We prove a series of distributional identities involving exponential and uniform random variables, and resolve the Petruccelli-Porosinski-Samuel...

Pablo A. Straub and Carlos Hurtado L. [email protected] [email protected] Depto. de Ciencia de la Computaci on Universidad Cat olica de Chile Vicu~ na Mackenna 4860 (143) Santiago 22, Chile Abstract Petri-nets have been used to model and analyze business process behavior, both in pure form and as the semantics of visual formalisms. We and others have advocated the use of a restricted class of...

This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology, to facilitate a shift away from linear work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. To approach such a change, by focusing on the technologies aspect to the detriment of a regard on managerial, technologica...

We develop a general framework that extends choice models by including an explicit representation of the process and context of decision making. Process refers to the steps involved in decision making. Context refers to factors affecting the process, focusing in this paper on social networks. The extended choice framework includes more behavioral richness through the explicit representation Mar...

The need for a formal development structure to produce high quality software products was addressed in 1970 when Royce described the initial software lifecycle model, the now classic Waterfall model. Building on the initial Stepwise model, the Waterfall model was to be re-introduced in a landmark article1, giving it a world-wide audience and adopting it as the conventional lifecycle model. The ...