The Analysis Methods About Business Process of E-Commerce Based on the Petri Net

Abstract

With the development and popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce has become an important mean of business in the developing current-social and economic. Presented methods on business process management mainly analyzed the correctness of the workflow model. However, these methods can't easily uncover the underlying risks existing in the model. In this paper, the analyzing method about the underlying risks of the business process is presented based on the Petri net, and we analyze the specific example by the proposed method. The theoretic analysis and the example effect show the method is effective. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.