Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS)
Special Issue on Workflow and Process Management
A workflow is usually defined as a sequence of tasks executed by automated
systems or people to carry out a (business) process. These processes (and
corresponding workflows) are built by linking together diverse activities
and specifying the flow of data and control among them. The success of
workflow paradigm is based on its ability to support modeling, simulation,
automated execution, and monitoring of processes in an environment that is
distributed, heterogeneous, and only partially automated.
Workflow and process management have recently gained interest in many
application areas, including banking and insurance industries,
manufacturing, healthcare, service order processing, and collaborative
software development. A large number of software products, very diverse in
their functionality and architectural approaches, has been introduced in
the last several years and advertised under the "workflow automation"
label. At the same time, workflow and process automation is a subject of
a growing interest in the research community (computer-aided
manufacturing, databases, information systems, artificial intelligence,
distributed computing, operations research, and software engineering).
Research projects carried out in academia and industry address a number of
complementary issues such as process modeling, process analysis and
simulation, and workflow enactment.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) is planning a special
issue on Workflow and Process Management. We solicit research and
applications papers addressing the following topics:
o Workflow specification languages; process-based information systems
models.
o Analysis, simulation, optimization, and testing of workflows.
o Transactional properties of workflows; concurrent workflows.
o Workflow visualization technologies for monitoring execution of
workflows.
o Coordination of human activities and computerized applications.
o Dynamically evolving workflows; interleaved planning and execution.
o Applications of workflow technologies in information-intensive domains.
Five hard copies of the paper, not exceeding 20 pages, should be
submitted by April 1, 1997 to:
Marek Rusinkiewicz
Guest Editor, JIIS Special Issue on Workflows
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
3500 West Balcones Center Drive, Austin, Texas 78759-5398
IMPORTANT DATES
o Submissions due: April 1, 1997
o Reviews to authors: July 31, 1997
o Final version due: Sept. 15, 1997
*** Information on JIIS and instructions for authors are available from
http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/
*** This CFP can be accessed at http://rodin.cs.uh.edu/~marek/cfp-wf.html
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