Workflow technology: trade-offs for business process re-engineering
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
A comprehensive approach to flexibility in workflow management systems
WACC '99 Proceedings of the international joint conference on Work activities coordination and collaboration
An agent-based approach for supporting cross-enterprise workflows
ADC '01 Proceedings of the 12th Australasian database conference
Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows
Distributed and Parallel Databases
The Active Database Management System Manifesto: A Rulebase of ADBMS Features
RIDS '95 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems
CooplS '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Pockets of Flexibility in Workflow Specification
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
An adaptive distributed workflow system framework
APSEC '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Using Simulation to Facilitate Effective Workflow Adaptation
SS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium
Exception handling in an object-oriented workflow management system
Exception handling in an object-oriented workflow management system
Advanced Topics In Workflow Management: Issues, Requirements, And Solutions
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Integration and verification of semantic constraints in adaptive process management systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Automating standard operating procedures in intensive care
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Infusing agility in business processes through an event-centric approach
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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Flexibility has recently grown to be one of the major research topics in the area of workflow management. A workflow system that supports flexible processes will benefit organizations more. In this paper, we present a workflow model offering flexibility by enabling activities to be composed automatically or manually at run-time. Our model uses selection constraints and composition constraints to guide end users to build valid workflow specifications. As an application of this model, we outline the architecture of our multi-agent based workflow management system, of which model agents play the role to complete workflow specifications according to run-time information of instances. We put forward an important algorithm related to the model agent, which is to compose activities into a valid subprocess with the shortest critical path.