a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Workflow design Data dependency Activity dependency Activity relations Business process automation Workflow design has become a critical function in enterprise information management. However, only scant research attention has been paid to formal workflow design methodologies. As a result, existing design methods in business process management remain a manual and...

Business Process includes workflows which integrated some critical activities among different departments. Workflow management is a quickly evolving technology that can assist business process reengineering and accomplish full or partial automatic processing of a business. Workflow plays a critical role in the ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) system since it aims to achieve maximum satisfact...

Workflow management systems provide a flexible way of implementing business processes. Structural conflicts such as deadlock and lack of synchronization are commonly occurring errors in workflow processes. Workflows with structural conflicts may lead to error-prone and undesirable results in business processes, which may in turn affect customer satisfaction, employee productivity, and integrity...

Workflow management is an emerging research area trying to automate business processes. The development of the Internet over the last years has had major impact on workflow management systems. This paper describes a model for workflows based on Petri nets which are well suited to represent discrete dynamic models and provide a solid formal foundation. The workflows can be executed using the Int...

This position paper describes applications that can benefit from integrated mobile computing and workflow management technologies. Such applications empower a mobile workforce to perform coordinated and streamlined work activities in the field or on the road. We discuss characteristics of these applications and workflow management for supporting these applications. We suggest that mobility supp...

Second generation workflow management systems need to deal with heterogeneity of platforms within and across cooperating enterprises along with legacy applications and data. At the same time, there is increasing demand for advanced features for supporting missioncritical processes, including adaptability through dynamic changes and scalability. The workflow management system METEOR is based on ...

This paper presents the architecture of a novel Peer to Peer (P2P) workflow management system. The proposed P2P architecture is based on concepts such as a Web Workflow Peers Directory (WWPD) and Web Workflow Peer (WWP). The WWPD is an active directory system that maintains a list of all peers (WWPs) that are available to participate in Web workflow processes. Similar to P2P systems such as Nap...

Current workflow management systems (WFMS) offer little aid for the acquisition of workflow models and their adaptation to changing requirements. To support these activities we propose to integrate machine learning and workflow management. This enables an inductive approach to workflow acquisition and adaptation by processing traces of manually enacted workflows. We present a machine learning c...

Workflow management helps organizations to organize their work on different activities in such a way that the predictable underlying processes are carried out effectively and efficiently in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a business workflow management system with intelligent multi-agent support in a collaborative organization environment. With the help from multi-agent co...

This paper comes back to the problem of coordination of cooperative activities with a Workflow management system. First, we describe the differences that we have noted between business processes and cooperative processes. Then we present a set of requirements for a Workflow management system that aims to support cooperative workflow, and among these requirements are high flexibility and dynamic...