Section: New Software and Platforms

Flipflop

Test & Flip Net Synthesis Tool for the Inference of Technical Procedure Models

Functional Description

Flipflop is a Test and Flip net synthesis tool implementing a linear algebraic polynomial time algorithm. Computations are done in the Z/2Z ring. Test and Flip nets extend Elementary Net Systems by allowing test to zero, test to one and flip arcs. The effect of flip arcs is to complement the marking of the place. While the net synthesis problem has been proved to be NP hard for Elementary Net Systems, thanks to flip arcs, the synthesis of Test and Flip nets can be done in polynomial time. Test and flip nets have the required expressivity to give concise and accurate representations of surgical processes (models of types of surgical operations). Test and Flip nets can express causality and conflict relations. The tool takes as input either standard XES log files (a standard XML file format for process mining tools) or a specific XML file format for surgical applications. The output is a Test and Flip net, solution of the following synthesis problem: Given a finite input language (log file), compute a net, which language is the least language in the class of Test and Flip net languages, containing the input language.

• Contact: Benoit Caillaud

• URL: http://tinyurl.com/oql6f3y