Advanced workflow management technologies

Bolcer, Gregory Alan; Taylor, Richard N.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1670(199809)4:3<125::aid-spip100>3.0.co;2-j

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“…This potential allows one to decentralize a WFMS and exploit the benefits of both distributed WFMS (Bolcer and Taylor 1998;Georgakopoulos et al 1995;Sheth and Kochut 1997) and of the agents paradigm in distributed systems. By their nature, agents support heterogeneity.…”

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What agents can do in workflow management systems

2010

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Workflow management systems are an emerging category of information systems, currently under dynamic evolution. On the other hand software agents are a distinct research area as well as an emerging paradigm for information systems design and development. This paper tries to examine the integration of these two fields; reveal the stimulation and the advantages of such a mixing. Popular standards of the workflow management field are used to derive a classification scheme, which is exploited to map existing approaches. As a significant number of existing approaches is reviewed, a plethora of integration patterns are identified and grouped according to the proposed classification scheme. The overall goal of the paper is to clear the vague picture of the consolidation of workflow management systems and software agents and to provide an unifying framework for this intersected area.

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What agents can do in workflow management systems

2010

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“…As mentioned previously, user information is stored in a set of XML files managed by the registry. 7 Groups are named sets of users and roles and the user registry provides an interface for editing a group's members statically. The user registry also provides an interface for creating roles and, optionally, an interface for statically binding a user or group to a role.…”

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“…An excellent survey of such work can be found in Bolcer and Taylor's "Advanced Workflow Management Technologies" [7]. Bolcer and Taylor identify key limitations of existing workflow systems such as fixed user models, heavyweight requirements (e.g.…”

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“…However, many traditional approaches to this technology make assumptions about their users that are inappropriate within the digital library context. For instance, some workflow systems assume that all users work for a single organization or, even worse, assume that all users are members of the same team within a single organization [7]. Other workflow systems are only slightly better in that they can support multiple users across multiple groups, but once again make the assumption that all users work for the same organization [6].…”

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Metis: lightweight, flexible, and web-based workflow services for digital libraries

Anderson¹,

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Wadhwani³

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2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings.

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The Metis project is developing workflow technology designed for use in digital libraries by avoiding the assumptions made by traditional workflow systems. In particular, digital libraries have highly distributed sets of stakeholders who nevertheless must work together to perform shared activities. Hence, traditional assumptions that all members of a workflow belong to the same organization, work in the same fashion, or have access to similar computing platforms are invalid. The Metis approach makes use of event-based workflows to support the distributed nature of digital library workflow and employs techniques to make the resulting technology lightweight, flexible, and integrated with the Web. This paper describes the conceptual framework behind the Metis approach as well as a prototype which implements the framework. The prototype represents a "proof-of-concept" of the Metis framework and approach as we show how it can both model and execute a peer review workflow drawn from a "real-world" digital library. After describing related work, the paper concludes with a discussion of future research opportunities in the area of digital library workflow and outlines how Metis is being deployed to a small set of digital libraries for additional evaluation.

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“…In addition, mobility infuses agents with the ability of migration. This potential allows one to decentralize a WFMS [34] and exploit the benefits of both distributed WFMS [31,35,36] and of the agents paradigm in distributed systems [33]. By their nature, agents support heterogeneity.…”

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An agent-based workflow management system for marketing decision support

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Advanced workflow management technologies

Cited by 26 publications

References 71 publications

What agents can do in workflow management systems

What agents can do in workflow management systems

Metis: lightweight, flexible, and web-based workflow services for digital libraries

An agent-based workflow management system for marketing decision support

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