WORKFLOW AND PROCESS AUTOMATION:
Concepts and Technology
by
Andrzej Cichocki
Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal
Marek Rusinkiewicz
Darrell Woelk
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-8099-1
December 1997; ISBN 0-7923-8099-1
Workflow and Process Automation: Concepts and Technology provides an
overview of the problems and issues related to process and workflow
technology, and in particular to definition and analysis of processes and
workflows, and execution of their instances. The need for a transactional
workflow model is discussed and a spectrum of related transaction models
is covered in detail. A plethora of influential projects in workflow and
process automation is summarized. The projects are drawn from both
academia and industry. The monograph also provides a short overview of
the most popular workflow management products, and the state of the
workflow industry in general.
Workflow and Process Automation: Concepts and Technology offers a road map
through the shortcomings of existing solutions of process improvement by
people with daily first-hand experience, and is suitable as a secondary
text for graduate-level courses on workflow and process automation, and as
a reference for practitioners in industry.
Table of Contents
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PREFACE
1.Introduction
2.Process Technolog
1.Process Modeling
2.Process Descriptive Views
3.Process Meta-Models
4.Process Model Analysis
3.Workflow Technology
1.Workflow Enactment Paradigms
2.Workflow Execution System Guarantees
3.Description Languages
4.Software Architecture of the Workflow Enactment Service
5.Security Considerations
6.Implementation Issues
4.Transactional Aspects of Workflows
1.The need for a workflow transaction model
2.Traditional Transactions
3.Correct Execution of Traditional Transactions
4.Extended Transaction Models
5.Meta-models for Extended Transactions
6.Towards Transactional Workflows
5.Ongoing Research in Workflow and Process Automation
1.chapter5Ongoing Research in Workflow and Process Automation
2.Overview
3.Process Handbook Project
4.Process Interchange Format
5.METEOR Multiparadigm Transactional Workflow
6.APRICOTS
7.Exotica Project
8.MENTOR
9.MOBILE
10.Panta Rhei Project
11.Interaction Coordination Nets
12.VORTEL - Teleservice for Workflow Management
13.WIDE Consortium
14.The TriGSflow Model
15.CoAct Model
16.Microsoft MAPI-WF
17.Database representation of workflows
18.OPERA
19.Migrating Workflows
6.Overview of Current Products
1.chapter 6.State of the Industry
2.Overview of Current Products
3.Workflow Management Coalition
4.Shortcomings and Limitations of Current Products
5.Shortcomings in technology support for processes
REFERENCES
INDEX
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