Das Konzept des Workflow-Management lässt sich auf unterschiedliche Ursprünge zurückführen. Zum einen kann Workflow-Management als Weiterentwicklung der Büroautomation in Richtung einer Prozessunterstützung des kaufmännisch-administrativen Bereiches verstanden werden. Zum anderen hat es seine Wurzeln im Konzept des Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) des Fertigungsbereiches, das sich bereit...

The management of workflows by computational means aims at maximizing efficiency, security and transparency of work. Therefore existing approaches concentrate on specific activities of workflows such as communication or processes. The WAM workflow management system integrates the main paradigms of process-based and communicationbased workflow management and intends to support all of the activit...

Collaborative applications such as workflow management systems separate between a process model and an organizational model. While the process modeling capabilities of current workflow management systems are at a high level, the organizational meta models provided by these systems are very often at a very elementary level. Moreover, most systems fail to provide means to integrate non-human acto...

The concept of the critical path has not been much addressed in a workflow even though it has been studied in many areas of computer engineering such as a directed acyclic graph. In this paper we first specify workflow control constructs which create workflow control structures used to describe business processes. And, we propose a method to find out the critical path in a time-constrained work...

In 2000, after a comprehensive survey of tools and techniques for workflow management, 20 control-flow patterns were identified [5] and made these available through www.workflowpatterns.com. Since then, many commercial and academic workflow management systems have been evaluated using these patterns. Moreover, standards such as BPEL and XPDL have been evaluated and these evaluations have trigge...

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software platforms that strongly contribute to make organizations more agile, flexible and dynamic concerning the management of their contents: business-oriented structured and no-structured information. A CMS’s extra feature is Workflow support since it can allow task automation, ultimately increasing organizations productivity. While there are different ki...

The analysis of workflow meta models aims at a problem that frequently occurs during the selection of a workflow management system – evaluating the capabilities of a modeling method. In this paper a meta model approach for the evaluation of different workflow management systems is introduced. After a comparison of the meta models of current workflow management systems a procedure model for the ...

The analysis of workflow meta models aims at a problem that frequently occurs during the selection of a workflow management system – evaluating the capabilities of a modeling method. In this paper a meta model approach for the evaluation of different workflow management systems is introduced. After a comparison of the meta models of current workflow management systems a procedure model for the ...

Workjlow management systems support the eficient, largely automated execution of business processes. Howevel; using a workflow management system typically requires implementing the application’s controljlow exclusively by the workflow management system. This approach is powerful cf the control flow is specified and implemented from scratch, but it has severe drawbacks if a workflow management s...

Enterprise-spanning workflows require workflow management systems that can be tailored to specific application needs, as well as enhanced support for interoperability between different workflow management systems. In virtual enterprises, the interoperability problem is not limited to workflow execution, but also entails facilities like worklist management and history management to be interopera...