Workflow management systems in collaborative logistic companies require strong information systems to support in a distributed environment. These IT integration requirements have expanded considerably with the advent of collaborative e-business; utilizing B2B (Business to Business) and P2P (Partner to Partner) e-commerce. This paper deals with adaptation management of collaborative workflow cha...

To accommodate the rapidly evolving business environments, there is a need for workflow management systems that can activate intra organizational business processes, in an efficient way. In this paper an Agent-Based Workflow Management System (AB-WfMS) is presented with the aim of supporting this issue through the adoption of agent technology. The proposed enterprise architecture has set apart ...

Preface The aim of the workflow management is to help business goals to be achieved with high efficiency by means of sequencing work activities and invoking appropriate resources associated to these activities. Therefore, workflow management is both a key technology in supporting business processes and an effective means to realize full or partial automation of a business process. Despite many ...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of workflow management applications on top of Notes Release 4. We elaborate on various design issues for Notes workflow applications and introduce Notes Release 4’s native workflow concepts like agents, events, macros, LotusScript, OLE2 capabilities, and doclinks, which make Notes a powerful workflow tool. The idea of the paper is the use ...

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Workflow management promises a new solution to an age-old problem: controlling, monitoring, optimizing and supporting business processes. What is new about workflow management is the explicit representation of the business process logic which allows for computerized support. This paper discusses the use of Petri nets in the context of workflow management. Petri nets are an established tool for ...

Workflow management systems are among the most interesting concepts for supporting modern organizations with a focus on processes rather than on structure. Workflow management systems offer different degrees of automation of business processes. We classify workflow management systems according to the features they provide and the types of processes they support. Database systems facilitate the ...

This paper reports our initial investigations into the use of workflow technology for constructing a software process management tool. We examine some recent work undertaken in the fields of tool construction technologies and low cost workflow engines. Using an example Software Engineering Environment (PSEE) built on top of a commercial RDBMS, we demonstrate a mapping from the PSEE onto the WfM...

Electronic commerce on the Internet receives much attention now. The workflow management is regarded as an effective mechanism for managing those business processes behind the electronic commerce. But today’s workflow management model has many drawbacks in this field. This paper gives a novel workflow management model based on mobile agents for Internet electronic commerce. And its advantages a...