Integrating light-weight workflow management systems within existing business environments

Muth, P.; Weißenfels, Jeanine; Gillmann, Michael; Weikum, Gerhard

doi:10.1109/icde.1999.754944

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“…As the topic of this paper lies on the border between workflow and programming languages, note that the key ideas of this approach (i.e., lightweight core and organic growth) are in line with recent research on workflow architectures [30,16] and trends in programming language design:…”

Section: The Micro-workflow Architec-turementioning

confidence: 89%

Workflow enactment with continuation and future objects

Manolescu¹

2002

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An increasing number of software developers are turning to workflow to separate the logic and the control aspects in their applications, thus making them more amenable to change. However, in spite of recent efforts to standardize and provide reusable workflow components, many developers build their own. This is a challenging endeavor and involves solving problems which seem incompatible with the object paradigm and current object-oriented programming languages. In the context of an object-oriented workflow framework, this paper demonstrates a novel approach that resolves this impedance mismatch with techniques drawn from programming language theory. This successful cross-pollination narrows the gap between the results of decades of research in programming languages and developers working hard to cope with change.

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Section: The Micro-workflow Architec-turementioning

confidence: 89%

Workflow enactment with continuation and future objects

Manolescu¹

2002

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“…Contrary to MQ/Series Workflow, iteration in WASA is supported through recursion: ''... a workflow Table 1 Main results of evaluating workflow languages used in the literature using the workflow patterns [7,9] Pattern Product ADEPT flex [52] OPENflow [53] EPC [36] Mentor [54][55][56] [59] (page 50). As stated before, there is no pattern corresponding to this feature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the Mentor project [54][55][56] state and activity charts are used for workflow specification. These languages were proposed in the context of the STATEMATE system described in [62].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

YAWL: yet another workflow language

Aalst¹,

Hofstede²

2005

Information Systems

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Based on a rigorous analysis of existing workflow management systems and workflow languages, a new workflow language is proposed: yet another workflow language (YAWL). To identify the differences between the various languages, we have collected a fairly complete set of workflow patterns. Based on these patterns we have evaluated several workflow products and detected considerable differences in their ability to capture control flows for non-trivial workflow processes. Languages based on Petri nets perform better when it comes to state-based workflow patterns. However, some patterns (e.g. involving multiple instances, complex synchronisations or non-local withdrawals) are not easy to map onto (high-level) Petri nets. This inspired us to develop a new language by taking Petri nets as a starting point and adding mechanisms to allow for a more direct and intuitive support of the workflow patterns identified. This paper motivates the need for such a language, specifies the semantics of the language, and shows that soundness can be verified in a compositional way. Although YAWL is intended as a complete workflow language, the focus of this paper is limited to the control-flow perspective. r

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“…Consequenly they have proposed "a review of current architectures of workflow management systems" [20]. Currently they are developing Mentorlite, a new generation workflow system centered around a lightweight core.…”

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An Extensible Workflow Architecture with Objects and Patterns

Manolescu

2003

The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

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Despite the large number of commercial workflow systems, object-oriented developers implement their business processes with home-made workflow solutions. Current workflow architectures are based on requirements and assumptions that don't hold in the context of object-oriented software development. Microworkflow, a new workflow architecture, bridges the gap between the type of functionality provided by existing workflow systems and the type of workflow functionality required by developers. Micro-workflow provides a better solution when the focus is on customizing the workflow features and integrating with other systems.

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Integrating light-weight workflow management systems within existing business environments

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Cited by 23 publications

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Workflow enactment with continuation and future objects

Workflow enactment with continuation and future objects

YAWL: yet another workflow language

An Extensible Workflow Architecture with Objects and Patterns

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