Key issues and experiences in development of distributed workflow management systems

Authors:
Hongchen Li;Yun Yang;Meilin Shi
Affiliations:
School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia;School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia;Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R., China
Venue:
APWeb'03 Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Research on workflow technology has been promoting the development of workflow management systems (WfMSs). Compared to centralised WfMSs, the development of distributed WfMSs are much more complex. Therefore, it needs to analyse their development from the software engineering perspective. This paper first presents the development lifecycle of distributed WfMSs, and then discusses issues of enterprise-wide workflow modeling and implementation of distributed WfMSs. Furthermore, we report on a case study and discuss issues related to the implementation of some components.