Goal-based and Risk-based Creation of Adaptive Workflow

Abstract Adaptive Workflow Management is being increasingly looked upon as one of the cures for the problems plaguing business organizations, which are being forced to continually restructure their business processes in response to changing market conditions. In such a situation, techniques for designing adaptive workflow processes from business goals become essential. In this paper, we present a knowledge-based technique, incorporating goals and risks, to derive portions of workflow process schemas from user-defined goals and scenarios. We also present a technique for composing these portions to create a complete workflow schema. We also show that our technique can create adaptive workflow processes. Another contribution of this paper, is that it also provides a way to model risks into the workflow process

Supporting flexible workflow processes with a progression model

Users require flexibility when interacting with information systems to contend with changing business processes and to support diverse workflow. Model-based user interface design can accommodate flexible business processes by integrating workflow modelling with other modelling approaches. We present a workflow model, the progression model, to help in developing systems that support flexible business processes. The progression model tracks a user’s interaction with an application as a set of data elements we refer to as a workflow transaction. The steps a user takes to create a workflow transaction and the state of the workflow transaction at each step is made explicit. By making the workflow status and workflow transaction state explicit, the user can change the order of the steps in a process, manage multiple workflow transactions, keep track of data as it is accumulated, and so on. The intent is to provide the user with a mechanism to deal with partial information, interrupted and concurrent workflow transaction entry, and the processing of multiple workflow transactions. This thesis describes the progression model, an XML-compliant notation to specify the progression model, and a prototype system

Software Engineering and Petri Nets

This booklet contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering and Petri Nets (SEPN), held on June 26, 2000. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets (ICATPN-2000), organised by the CPN group of the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. The SEPN workshop papers are available in electronic form via the web page:http://www.daimi.au.dk/pn2000/proceeding