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
Executable workflows: a paradigm for collaborative design on the Internet
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
ADC '02 Proceedings of the 13th Australasian database conference - Volume 5
A CORBA-Based Manufacturing Environment
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Software Technology and Architecture - Volume 1
WSCPC: an architecture using semantic web services for collaborative product commerce
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Collaborative environments for concurrent engineering
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Process management serves as a central mechanism for supporting collaborative design and manufacturing. In this paper, a Java-based, distributed process management system for collaborative design and manufacturing is presented. The system called MIDAS employs the process grammar to support the efficient representation of process alternatives and to facilitate the collaboration among users. The main features of our system are: Java-based, distributed architecture, and XML-based. Java applets and RMI increase the portability of our system, enabling the client-side module of our system to run at any location without the pre-installation of additional software. Process databases, servers, and external applications that are distributed over various companies can be integrated into the system transparently to users. XML is utilized to represent the execution status, data visualization, and task knowledge, increasing the scalability and customizability of the system functionalities. The system is shown to be efficient when we applied it to several real processes.