Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific superclass. When adapting a workflow process definition to specific needs (ad-hoc change) or changing the structure of the workflow process as a result of reengineering efforts (evolutionary change), inheritance concepts are usef...

Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific superclass. When adapting a workflow process definition to specific needs (ad-hoc change) or changing the structure of the workflow process as a result of reengineering efforts (evolutionary change), inheritance concepts are usef...

Trends towards increased business process automation, e-commerce, and e-business have led to increasing interest in the field of workflow management. In this paper, we provide a perspective on the state of research in workflow management systems, and discuss possible future research directions in this area, with a particular emphasis on workflow systems in integrating interorganizational proces...

Both workflow and agent technology have recently been applied to business process management. The integration of these two technologies will definitely provide solutions to the problems not to be solved by any of them. This paper summaries the capabilities of these two technologies and discusses the forms and their benefits of integrating them for business process management. Generally, agent e...

Many of today s information systems are driven by explicit process models. Workflow management systems, but also ERP, CRM, SCM, and B2B, are configured on the basis of a workflow model specifying the order in which tasks need to be executed. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process and typically there are discrepancies between the actual workflow processes and the proc...

Traditional Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) is hard to meet the requirements of the dynamic, flexible modern business process. In recent years, Web services technology has been developing. It’s not only makes the activity in workflow by Web services form, but also workflow itself is invoked by Web services, especially semantic web services technology is developing, which makes it possible to...

Workflow management systems are being increasingly used by many organizations to automate business processes and decrease costs. Audit trails from workflow management systems include significant amounts of information that can be used to analyze and monitor the performance of business processes in order to improve the efficiency. Traditional approaches for using workflow audit trail for decisio...

Despite the enthusiasm, the workflow management idea faces currently, some problems occur when setting up large workflow applications for complex business processes. To solve some of these problems, a combination of workflow management concepts and the notion of "organizational memory information systems" is suggested. The basic idea is to create an evolutionary workflow management system using...

Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that can offer unprecedented scalability and resources on demand, and is gaining significant adoption in the science community. At the same time, scientific workflow management systems provide essential support and functionality to scientific computing, such as management of data and task dependencies, job scheduling and execution, provenance tr...

This paper presents research at BT Labs in intelligent workflow management technologies. We summarise the results of past research, and then describe recent work where we applied range of AI technologies to workflow management systems. In particular, we discuss how we are currently using • Machine learning (specifically support vector machines and time series analysis) • Qualitative multi-crite...