Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries generally compose of several parts, a structured operational part and an unstructured operational part, or they could be composed of semi-structured parts with some given and some unknown details. Unpredictable situations may ...

In several working environments, production involves repeated executions of certain procedures. A workflow describes the individual tasks performed in these procedures and their interrelationships. Current Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) use a Database Management System (DBMS) to store task descriptions, and implement all workflow functionality in modules that run on top of the DBMS. Motiva...

In recent years, the term paperless environment has almost become essential to manage various office contents. We have proposed a system aSPOCMS (An Agent-based Semantic Web for Paperless Office Content Management System) to provide paperless environment based on workflow ontology to manage the files and documents of various departments and sections of higher educational institutions. The metad...

In this paper a short chronology of evolution of workflow management systems is given. Classifications according to different criteria of software tools supporting modeling and execution functionalities of workflow management systems are presented. Keywords—Automation systems, business processes, web services

Numerous type of information systems record event data about executed tasks. Workflow mining is concerned with the origin of a graphical workflow model out of this data. Workflow mining is a highly interactive process. The mining expert repeatedly approaches the result by changing the parameter of the mining tool and verifying the mined models. The modeling of business process in a computerized...

Product development process (PDP) is one of the most important business processes for enterprises but it has difficulty in workflow management because of the uncertain and dynamic characteristics. Thus, even though there have been many workflow modeling and management methods, they have limitations to deal with the special characteristics of PDP. We define PWF-nets based on timed colored Petri ...

Standard client-server workflow management systems are usually designed as clientserver systems. The central server is responsible for the coordination of the workflow execution and, in some cases, may manage the activities database. This centralized control architecture may represent a single point of failure, which compromises the availability of the system. We propose a fully distributed and...

This paper presents a model-driven and integrated approach to variability management, customization and execution of software processes. Our approach is founded on the principles and techniques of software product lines and model-driven engineering. Model-driven engineering provides support to the specification of software processes and their transformation to workflow specifications. Software ...

In the past five years ‘The Grid’ emerged as one of the most important new developments in building the computing and data management infrastructure for science, business, health, and society in the 21st century. This paper deals with the development and organization of the knowledge discovery processes in Grid environments, especially, with the collaboration and coordination of a set of OGSA b...