Process — Orientation Based on Petri-Nets for the Coordination of Planning Processes in Civil Engineering

Abstract

Process-orientation is an important approach for the support and the coordination of planning processes in civil engineering. Process-orientation relies on a comprehensive and consistent process model. The Petri Net theory provides some significant benefits for the application on process modeling, -analysis and –runtime control. This contribution outlines the basic idea of process-orientation and presents the goals of process modeling in civil engineering. Then a Petri Net-based process model for civil engineering processes is presented and the corresponding reference implementation ProMiSE (Process Modeling in Structural Engineering) is introduced. ProMiSE is a Java-based software tool for process modeling, -analysis and -control with network communication mechanisms based on the WebService technology.