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A comprehensive approach to flexibility in workflow management systems

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Stefan Jablonski,

Michael TeschkeAuthors Info & Claims

WACC '99: Proceedings of the international joint conference on Work activities coordination and collaboration

Pages 79 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/295665.295675

Published: 01 March 1999 Publication History

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Flexibility has recently grown to be one of the major research topics in the area of workflow management. In this paper we focus on flexibility of workflow management applications, in contrast to flexibility of the implementation of workflow management systems. In a case study we show the necessity of flexibility in workflow management applications. This flexibility can roughly be classified into flexibility, which is provided by the workflow type, and flexibility, which goes beyond the scope of the workflow type and has additionally to be provided by a workflow management system. We call this flexibility by selection and flexibility by adaption, respectively. We point out that the modeling process as a main aspect of flexibility by adaption has to be treated as a CSCW scenario. The classification leads to a structured overall concept for flexibility in workflow management applications.

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WACC '99: Proceedings of the international joint conference on Work activities coordination and collaboration

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ISBN:1581130708

DOI:10.1145/295665

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 24, Issue 2
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GMD-FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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