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

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

280

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2001. EDOC '01. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1345-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2001.950446

Filename

950446