International Workshop on
Workflow Management
WFM'98
August 28, 1998
http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/wfm98
in connection with the
9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA'98
to be held in Vienna, August 24-28, 1998
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98/
and co-located with the
15th IFIP World Computer Congress
IFIP'98
to be held in Vienna and Budapest, August 31 - September 4, 1998
http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html
Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
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Outline:
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Workflow management systems are developed to support/automate the
execution of business processes. A workflow systems enacts a business
process by assigning tasks to workflow agents according to the workflow
specification. In this workshop we will focus on the management of
workflows. Management is an activity which has to do with planning,
controlling, organizing, making decisions, and solving problems.
Current workflow systems support the management of processes in
different degrees. Many state-of-the-art workflow systems are mainly
concerned with the routing and assignment of tasks and provide little
support for the above mentioned managerial aspects.
This workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of novell ideas on the following key questions:
* How can workflow systems support the management of processes?
* How can workflows be managed?
Major topics of interest which address the above questions may include
but are not limited to:
Workflow Control
Workflow Transactions
Exception Handling in Workflow Systems
Workflow Administration
Time Management in Workflow Systems
Management of Resources in Workflow Systems
Workflow Monitoring
Dynamic Workflows
Workflow Planning and Control Systems
Workflow reporting
Data Mining in Workflow Systems
Process Improvement Cycles
Organizational Environment for Workflow Application
Experiences in the Application of Workflow Systems
Work Scheduling
Workflow and Quality Management
Cooperation between Workflow Management Systems and Groupware Systems
Generation of Processes from Case Descriptions
Workflow and Project Management
Workflow Management and Personal Productivity Tools
Program Committee Chair
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Johann Eder
Department for Informatics-Systems
University of Klagenfurt
Universitaetsstr. 65
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
email: eder@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at
Program Committee
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Clemens Beckstein, Germany
Omran Bukresh, USA
Asuman Dogac, Turkey
Clarence "Skip" Ellis, USA
Herbert Groiss, Austria
Steff Joosten, Netherlands
Gerti Kappel, Austria
Nihan Kesim, Turkey
Frank Leyman, Germany
Amit Sheth, USA
Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be
carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by
three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be
published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'98
workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the
author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT
be longer than 4000 words in double space. We highly encourage
electronic submission by email in the form of post-script file to
wfm98@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at
In case you have problem in sending by email, please send four hard
copies to the program commitee chair.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of abstracts: March 10, 1998
* Submission of full papers: March 17, 1998
* Notification of acceptance: May 5, 1998
* Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 1998
The authors are requested to send the abstract of the paper in ASCII
format including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses,
and affiliations, by email to wfm98@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at
For any further questions or inquiries please contact the program
commitee chair.
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