• DocumentCode
    3342307
  • Title

    A Formal Model of Human Workflow

  • Author

    Zhao, Xiangpeng ; Qiu, Zongyan ; Cai, Chao ; Yang, Hongli

  • Author_Institution
    LMAM & Dept. of Inf., Peking Univ., Beijing
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    195
  • Lastpage
    202
  • Abstract
    BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) has become the standard for specifying and executing workflow specifications for Web service composition invocation. A major weakness of BPEL is the lack of so-called "human workflow" support. The BPEL4People specification tries to amend this by adding human task support to BPEL. In this paper, we propose a formal model of BPEL4People using the CSP process algebra, and discuss some issues we found through analyzing the model. Although based on BPEL4People, this is a general work, and can also be viewed as a formal model of human workflow.
  • Keywords
    Web services; business process re-engineering; communicating sequential processes; user interfaces; CSP process algebra; Web service composition; business process execution language; human workflow; Algebra; Authorization; Business; Chaos; Educational institutions; Humans; Informatics; Permission; Solid modeling; Web services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Web Services, 2008. ICWS '08. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3310-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3310-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICWS.2008.14
  • Filename
    4670176