TY - JOUR
T1 - A Package Reduction Approach to Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Organization Emergency Response Processes with Privacy Protected
AU - Duan, Hua
AU - Liu, Cong
AU - Zeng, Qingtian
AU - Zhou, Mengchu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61472229, Grant 61602279, Grant 71704096, and Grant 31671588, in part by the Science and Technology Development Fund of the Shandong Province of China under Grant 2016ZDJS02A11, Grant ZR2017BF015, and Grant ZR2017MF027, in part by the Humanities and Social Science Research Project of the Ministry of Education under Grant 16YJCZH154, Grant 16YJCZH041, and Grant 18YJAZH017, in part by the Taishan Scholar Climbing Program of Shandong Province, and in part by the SDUST Research Fund under Grant 2015TDJH102.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The emergency disposals are usually charged by several geographically dispersed and logically collaborated emergency organizations. In addition, each emergency organization owns its private emergency response process and can operate independently. In this case, modeling such cross-organizational emergency response processes is really a challenging issue when considering: 1) effective collaboration and coordination among different emergency partners; and 2) reasonable privacy and security protection mechanism to maintain the sensitive information confidential and unseen by other involved partners. In this paper, we propose a package reduction-based privacy protection approach to facilitate the modeling. Specifically, a kind of workflow nets extended with time, resource, and message factors, called TRMWFnets for short, is first introduced to model cross-organization emergency response processes. Then, a three-layered framework is proposed to model cross-organization emergency response processes by taking into account their privacy protection and temporal performance evaluation. Next, a set of reduction rules are proposed to reduce the scale of a TRMWFnet while keeping its external observable timing, message, and resource factors invariant. These reduction rules not only improve the efficiency of temporal performance evaluation but also protect the business privacy of each emergency organization during its collaboration and interaction with others. Finally, a real-life scenario of cross-organization fire emergency response processes is used to validate our proposed approaches.
AB - The emergency disposals are usually charged by several geographically dispersed and logically collaborated emergency organizations. In addition, each emergency organization owns its private emergency response process and can operate independently. In this case, modeling such cross-organizational emergency response processes is really a challenging issue when considering: 1) effective collaboration and coordination among different emergency partners; and 2) reasonable privacy and security protection mechanism to maintain the sensitive information confidential and unseen by other involved partners. In this paper, we propose a package reduction-based privacy protection approach to facilitate the modeling. Specifically, a kind of workflow nets extended with time, resource, and message factors, called TRMWFnets for short, is first introduced to model cross-organization emergency response processes. Then, a three-layered framework is proposed to model cross-organization emergency response processes by taking into account their privacy protection and temporal performance evaluation. Next, a set of reduction rules are proposed to reduce the scale of a TRMWFnet while keeping its external observable timing, message, and resource factors invariant. These reduction rules not only improve the efficiency of temporal performance evaluation but also protect the business privacy of each emergency organization during its collaboration and interaction with others. Finally, a real-life scenario of cross-organization fire emergency response processes is used to validate our proposed approaches.
KW - Coarse-grained packages
KW - Petri nets
KW - cross-organization emergency response processes
KW - privacy protection
KW - reduction rules
KW - temporal performance evaluation
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2868924
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2868924
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054411085
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 6
SP - 55573
EP - 55585
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 8477008
ER -