Ad-hoc workflow: problems and solutions

Author

Voorhoeve, M. ; Van der Aalst, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1997

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

40

Abstract

The paper introduces ad hoc workflow, adding flexibility to traditional workflow. A problem that stems from the added flexibility is the need to support end users in the selection and modification of the process for a specific case. We propose a class of Petri nets to describe workflow processes, featuring safeness and guaranteed termination. A set of transformation rules with sufficient power for this class is given that can be implemented in a graphical editor. A second problem is monitoring the work being done. The solution is to approximate the states of the cases being treated by the states of a few standard cases

Keywords

Petri nets; business data processing; computer graphics; office automation; program verification; Petri nets; ad hoc workflow; end user support; graphical editor; guaranteed termination; safeness; standard cases; transformation rules; workflow processes; Collaborative work; Concurrent computing; Frequency; Guidelines; Mathematics; Monitoring; Paper technology; Petri nets; Production; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1997. Proceedings., Eighth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8147-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.1997.617230

Filename

617230