Towards Distributed Workflow Process Management

Towards Distributed Workflow Process Management

Abstract

Today, companies are driven by the rate at which technologies change and move towards global enterprises and virtual organizations in order to stay competitive. In global and virtual enterprises, business processes consist of multiple sub-processes that may span multiple time zones, organizational boundaries, and legal domains. Current workflow technology does not provide the necessary functionality to model, implement, and manage such processes due to its mostly centralized, coupled architecture and limited process management capabilities. In this paper, we present our on-going efforts to address some of these shortcomings. In particular, we outline an event-based workflow infrastructure that support distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamically changing environments. In addition, we present time-related constructs for addressing the time aspects of processes in such environments.

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Authors
  • Eder, Johann
  • Panagos, Euthimios
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Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings
Event Title
Workshop on Cross-Organisational Workflow Management and Co-ordination
Divisions
Workflow Systems and Technology
Event Location
San Francisco, California
Event Type
Workshop
Event Dates
2006-01-05
Date
February 1999
Official URL
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/Publications/1999/Eder...
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