Uncertainty Measure of Process Models using Entropy and Petri Nets

Martin Ibl

2013

Abstract

In recent years, many measures of process models have been proposed to predict or quantify the number of specific properties. These properties may include readability, complexity, cohesion or uncertainty of process models. The content of this work is to propose a method that allows the measurement of uncertainty in the process models, which can be expressed in the form of a Petri net. The actual method works by mapping the set of all reachable marking of Petri net to Markov chain and subsequent quantification of steady-state probabilities of its states. Uncertainty is then quantified as the entropy of states in the Markov chain. Uncertainty can also be expressed as a percentage of the calculated entropy to the maximum entropy of a Petri net.

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Ibl M. (2013). Uncertainty Measure of Process Models using Entropy and Petri Nets . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 542-547. DOI: 10.5220/0004584205420547


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@conference{icsoft-pt13,
author={Martin Ibl},
title={Uncertainty Measure of Process Models using Entropy and Petri Nets},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={542-547},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004584205420547},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - Uncertainty Measure of Process Models using Entropy and Petri Nets
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Ibl M.
PY - 2013
SP - 542
EP - 547
DO - 10.5220/0004584205420547