Workflow modeling for virtual processes: an order-preserving process-view approach

  • Authors:

  • Duen-Ren Liu;Minxin Shen

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan;Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Conducting workflow management allows virtual enterprises to collaboratively manage business processes. Given the diverse requirements of the participants involved in a business process, providing various participants with adequate process information is critical to effective workflow management. This work describes a novel process-view, i.e., an abstracted process which is derived from a base process to provide process abstraction, for modeling a virtual workflow process. The proposed process-view model enhances the conventional activity-based process models by providing different participants with various views of a process. Moreover, this work presents a novel order-preserving approach to derive a process-view from a base process. The approach proposed herein can preserve the original ordering of activities in the base process. Additionally, a formal model is presented to define an order-preserving process-view. Finally, an algorithm is proposed for automatically generating an order-preserving process-view. The proposed approach increases the flexibility and functionality of workflow management systems.