Tutorial for the YAWL4Healthcare WfMS

In this chapter we introduce the YAWL4Healthcare WfMS. This is a prototype implementation of a WfMS augmented with calendar-based scheduling support and inter-workflow support. It has been realized in combination with the YAWL WfMS (version 2.1 final). For this chapter we assume that the reader is already familiar with the YAWL WfMS. Extensive information about YAWL can be found on www.yawlfoundation.org and in the user manual [5]. Moreover, we also assume that the reader is already familiar with the theoretical foundations of the scheduling support and inter-workflow support features that are added to the YAWL WfMS. Extensive theoretical information regarding scheduling support and inter-workflow support can be found in Chapters 5 and 6 of [7]. The remainder of this tutorial is organized as follows. First, in Sections 2 and 3 the calendar-based scheduling support and inter-workflow support capabilities of the system are presented. Afterwards, In Section 4, the architecture of the realized system is presented. Finally, in Section 5 some links are provided.