Title :
A cooperative workflow management system with the Meta-Object Facility
Author :
Le Pallec, X. ; Vantroys, T.
Author_Institution :
Lab. TRIGONE, Lille I Univ., Villeneuve d´Ascq
Abstract :
In order to be completely adopted by industry, workflow management systems (WFMS) have to provide a more complete support to organisational processes. The cooperation is part of the missing features. The authors propose to integrate a computer supported cooperative work system in a WFMS to solve the cooperation problem. This integration consists of interoperability between the two systems thanks to the Meta-Object Facility and inheritance. By describing the construction scenario of the bridge between the two systems, the paper shows the benefits of using MOF for achieving interoperability
Keywords :
distributed object management; groupware; inheritance; open systems; workflow management software; MOF; Meta-Object Facility; WFMS; computer supported cooperative work system; construction scenario; cooperation problem; cooperative workflow management system; inheritance; interoperability; organisational processes; workflow management systems; Bridges; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Construction industry; Data warehouses; Management training; Runtime; Technology management; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2001. EDOC '01. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1345-X
DOI :
10.1109/EDOC.2001.950446
