An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Sharing manufacturing information in virtual enterprises
Communications of the ACM
Object-oriented modeling and design for database applications
Object-oriented modeling and design for database applications
UML distilled: applying the standard object modeling language
UML distilled: applying the standard object modeling language
An Object Model for Product and Workflow Data Management
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
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Enterprises need to cope with increasing volumes of complex and evolving data and at the same time to reduce 'time-to-market' for products. As data volumes increase and user communities grow and change with time, enterprise systems must be able to provide access to the enterprise data appropriate to multiple application viewpoints. In addition, the enterprise model must be flexible, adaptable and secure and be designed to maximise reusability of code, to cope with distribution of the enterprise activities and to inter-operate with legacy systems. The era where business rules are buried deep within the application code is coming to an end. Today users themselves seek to dynamically change their business rules and they need systems which can adapt to their evolving business needs, meet their requirements and scale to large installations. This paper outlines how an enterprise model that integrates process and product data modelling has been constructed following a description-driven design approach for the management of large-scale scientific apparatus.