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A framework for document-driven workflow systems

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Akhil KumarAuthors Info & Claims

BPM'05: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management

Pages 285 - 301

https://doi.org/10.1007/11538394_19

Published: 05 September 2005 Publication History

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We propose and demonstrate the feasibility of a framework for document-driven workflow systems that requires no explicit control flow and the execution of the process is driven by input documents. The framework can assist workflow designers to discover the data dependencies between tasks in a process and achieve more efficient control flow design. The framework also provides an architecture to separate the workflow system from application data and facilitate inter-organizational processes. Document-driven workflow systems are more flexible than traditional control flow processes, easier to verify and work better for ad hoc workflows. We also implemented a prototype workflow system using the framework entirely in a RDBMS using Transact-SQL in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. A detailed comparison with control driven workflows has also been done.

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BPM'05: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management

September 2005

469 pages

ISBN:3540282386

Editors:
Wil P. Aalst
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, AZ, The Netherlands
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Boualem Benatallah
CSE, University of New South Wales, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, AZ, Australia
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Fabio Casati
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, AZ, Italy
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Francisco Curbera
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Den Dolech 2, Hawthorne, AZ, Italy

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