newYAWL: Towards Workflow 2.0

  • Authors:
  • Nick Russell;Arthur H. Hofstede

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5600MB;Queensland University of Technology, Australia 4001

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The field of workflow technology has burgeoned in recent years providing a variety of means of automating business processes. It is a great source of opportunity for organisations seeking to streamline and optimise their operations. Despite these advantages however, the current generation of workflow technologies are subject to a variety of criticisms, in terms of their restricted view of what comprises a business process, their imprecise definition and their general inflexibility. As a remedy to these potential difficulties, in this paper we propose a series of development goals for the next generation of workflow technology. We also present new YAWL, a formally defined, multi-perspective reference language for workflow systems.