Developing a reusable workflow engine

Developing a reusable workflow engine

Every time a workflow solution is conceived there is a large amount of functionality that is eventually reinvented and redeveloped from scratch. Workflow management systems from academia to the commercial arena exhibit a myriad of approaches having as much in common as in contrast with each other. Efforts in standardizing a workflow reference model and the gradual endorsement of those standards...

<e-QTI>: A Reusable Assessment Engine

is a highly modular and extensible engine that simplifies the assessment cycle in terms of generation, execution, presentation, grading and archiving. is based on the IMS QTI specification but it is able to export and import assessments represented in a wide range of formats, and also to maintain a pool of questions that can be reused in a wide variety of authoring situations. T...

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Media360 Workflow-Implementing a Workflow Engine Inside a Database

I describe a Workflow Management System, where the workflow engine is implemented inside a database. The focus here is on the architectural approach and on the lessons learned from a commercial implementation in the workflow component of the Informix Media 360 content management solution. Conceptually, the two main primitives of workflow are activities, which represent the work items of a large...

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