DocumentCode :
3146353
Title :
Generic workflow models: how to handle dynamic change and capture management information?
Author :
van der Aalst, W.M.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
115
Lastpage :
126
Abstract :
Traditionally, workflow management systems are used to support static processes, i.e., processes which do not change frequently. This has limited the scope of workflow management. Moreover, the networked economy of the new millennium requires workflow management systems which are able to deal with dynamically changing workflow processes. The paper addresses two notorious problems related to adaptive workflow: (1) providing management information at the right aggregation level, and (2) supporting dynamic change, i.e., migrating cases from an old to a new workflow. These two problems are tackled by using generic process models. A generic process model describes a family of variants of the same workflow process. It is a first step in the direction of truly flexible workflow management systems and provides a handle to solve the two problems mentioned
Keywords :
Petri nets; adaptive systems; management of change; workflow management software; adaptive workflow; aggregation level; dynamic change; dynamically changing workflow processes; flexible workflow management systems; generic process models; generic workflow models; management information; management information capture; networked economy; static processes; workflow management systems; workflow process; Acceleration; Business; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic commerce; Electronic switching systems; Identity-based encryption; Information management; Mathematics; Read only memory; Workflow management software;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Cooperative Information Systems, 1999. CoopIS '99. Proceedings. 1999 IFCIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0384-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/COOPIS.1999.792163
Filename :
792163
Link To Document :
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