Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Distributed and Parallel Databases
YAWL: yet another workflow language
Information Systems
Candidate interoperability standards: An ontological overlap analysis
Data & Knowledge Engineering
On the suitability of BPMN for business process modelling
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Workflow resource patterns: identification, representation and tool support
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A study of the evolution of the representational capabilities of process modeling grammars
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Using the π-calculus for formalizing workflow patterns
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
Pattern-based analysis of the control-flow perspective of UML activity diagrams
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Workflow data patterns: identification, representation and tool support
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Design of an open social E-service for assisted living
EGOV'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
Visual modeling of workflow with support to multimedia and spatiotemporal indexing
EGOVIS'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Electronic government and the information systems perspective
Workflow patterns put into context
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
A business process-driven approach for requirements dependency analysis
BPM'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business Process Management
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In keeping with the proliferation of free software development initiatives and the increased interest in the business process management domain, many open source workflow and business process management systems have appeared during the last few years and are now under active development. This upsurge gives rise to two important questions: What are the capabilities of these systems? and How do they compare to each other and to their closed source counterparts? In other words: What is the state-of-the-art in the area?. To gain an insight into these questions, we have conducted an in-depth analysis of three of the major open source workflow management systems - jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark, the results of which are reported here. This analysis is based on the workflow patterns framework and provides a continuation of the series of evaluations performed using the same framework on closed source systems, business process modelling languages, and web-service composition standards. The results from evaluations of the three open source systems are compared with each other and also with the results from evaluations of three representative closed source systems: Staffware, WebSphere MQ, and Oracle BPEL PM. The overall conclusion is that open source systems are targeted more toward developers rather than business analysts. They generally provide less support for the patterns than closed source systems, particularly with respect to the resource perspective, i.e. the various ways in which work is distributed amongst business users and managed through to completion.