Information Resources Management in Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments: A Metadatabase Approach
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Behavior of database production rules: termination, confluence, and observable determinism
SIGMOD '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Core information model: a practical solution to costly integration problems
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Collection of papers on Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Trigger modelling for workflow analysis
CON '94 Proceedings of the ninth Austrian-informatics conference on Workflow management : challenges, paradigms and products: challenges, paradigms and products
Dynamic change within workflow systems
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
From BPR models to workflow applications
Workflow handbook 1997
Adept_flex—Supporting Dynamic Changes of Workflows Without Losing Control
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
Modeling and Analysis of Workflows Using Petri Nets
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
Verification of workflow task structures: A petri-net-based approach
Information Systems
Analyzing process models using graph reduction techniques
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
The design requirements of office systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Processes Driving the Networked Economy
IEEE Concurrency
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Improving Rule Analysis by Means of Triggering and Activation Graphs
RIDS '95 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems
Investigating Termination in Active Database Systems with Expressive Rule Languages
RIDS '97 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems
ER '96 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
A Framework for Dynamic Routing and Operational Integrity Controls in a Workflow Management System
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 3: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Distributed data management in workflow environments
RIDE '97 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE '97) High Performance Database Management for Large-Scale Applications
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Product Data Management, the ASP (application service provider) model of e-business, and other information enterprises involve complex database-driven processes that change frequently. Workflow management for these enterprises requires analysis of the causality of updates on the control logic of the processes and the semantics of the databases involved. Previous workflow analysis tends to focus on the former and leave the details of the database control to application developers. This practice could lead to inconsistent applications when the processes evolve and/or the underlying data and rules change. The field still needs an integrated causality analysis tool to facilitate the update problem. In this research, we develop a Control-Activity-Rule-Data (CARD) model of a decision support tool that helps workflow administrators analyze the effects of update in processes and/or databases on both control flow and data/rules flow. The CARD model contributes a new Workflow Information Resources Dictionary which represents data, rules, activities and control in a mutually independent but collectively integrated way to achieve the goal. An extended Workflow Causality Graph capable of representing workflow integrity rules enables the CARD model for implementation. An empirical validation of the model using three representative Product Data Management workflow cases at Samsung Electronics Corporation shows its correctness and relevance for practical applications.