Compositional Modelling of Workflow Processes
EurAsia-ICT '02 Proceedings of the First EurAsian Conference on Information and Communication Technology
A Design Methodology for Workflow System Development
DNIS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems
Design and control of workflow processes: business process management for the service industry
Design and control of workflow processes: business process management for the service industry
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Today, the design of workflow schemas is to a large extent a manual process. Starting with business-process models, developers must make many decisions that are not supported by tools, to finally deliver a workflow schema that can be executed by a particular workflow management system (WFMS).This paper presents an approach that uses intermediate descriptions to make design decisions explicit, to organize these decisions in a substantiated sequence, and to provide a definition of workflow schemas that is independent of a particular WFMS. More specifically, a task-type structure is introduced to capture the so-called functional perspective of workflows. This structure can be mapped semi-automatically to a workflow-type configuration that is enhanced and modified so that it takes into account the specific model elements and functionality provided by a particular WFMS. This configuration is finally used to automatically generate a workflow schema skeleton in the individual language of that WFMS.