Flexible Real-time Meeting Support for Workflow Management Systems

Authors:
Michael Weber;Gerhard Partsch;Astrid Scheller-Huoy;Jean Schweitzer;Gerhard Schneider
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Information Systems Track-Collaboration Systems and Technology - Volume 2
Year:
1997

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Abstract

Two different areas of distributed group work are supportedby workflow management systems and by real-timemeeting systems. Workflow management is best suited fortasks which proceed in a predefinable way, and whoserecurring appearance justify the cost of an a priori modelling.A problem of a priori modelling is that such modelsare static. Activities which arise spontaneously cannot beeasily covered. Real-time meeting support systems are bestsuited for such ad-hoc group activities. Audiovisual connectivityand shared documents enable flexible groupprocesses. To combine the advantages of both types of systemsan integration concept and prototype system is introduced.Meetings are embedded into workflows usingdifferent categories of meeting models. Monitoring andchecklisting support the course of meetings. The couplingof workflow management and meeting support is achievedby a meeting broker.