Abstracting Business Resources for Multi-Collaboration: The WFC-Net Approach
Year: 2026
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: The industrial chain forms a network of interconnected enterprises spanning from raw material procurement to final product distribution, enabling cost reduction, operational efficiency improvement, and enhanced market competitiveness. However, business resource conversion among enterprises often leads to information asymmetry, which impedes effective interconnection and collaboration. To address this challenge, WFC-Net (Workflow-Control Petri Net with Resource Fusion), a model tailored for multi-collaboration scenarios among interconnected enterprises in the industrial chain, is proposed. The proposed approach integrates WF-Net workflow characteristics with C-Net dependency modeling and Petri net transitions to enable precise workflow control and effective business resource coordination. The resource attributes are incorporated as first-class net elements, and a receding-horizon optimization policy is employed to dynamically adapt to varying operational conditions. Comparative simulation experiments demonstrate that WFC-Net achieves superior performance across all metrics, with an 89.1% authorization success rate and 36.0% event completion rate, outperforming Petri Net, C-Net, and WF-Net baselines. The full-rank reachability matrix provides a necessary condition for linearized controllability, offering a theoretical foundation for stable authorization behavior under the receding-horizon policy. These results demonstrate that WFC-Net consistently achieves or approximates target business-side metrics while ensuring controllability and soundness.
Source: Mathematics
DOI: 10.3390/math14152704
Authors: Xiaotong Chen, Tong Gu, Jincheng Pan, Linfu Sun
Institution: Southwest Jiaotong University
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,137
OpenAlex ID: W7171497777