Workflow Planning for E-Learning Center Management

Workflow technology was developed in order to help to understand, coordinate and orchestrate the processes that make an organisation work. It is perfectly suitable for the management of an e-learning center, where a course manager have to allocate the execution of a set of tasks among the existing human resources. This paper presents how to make the most of an e-learning business model stored in XPDL, converting it into a planning representation, using the HTN paradigm. The subsequent goal is to obtain an action plan that distribute the tasks needed for the creation and configuration of an online course to a set of workers.