Building a Workflow Enactment Service for Telework Co-Ordination

In its on-going effort to define, specify and build a telework co-ordination system, the Telework Interest Group at FEUP DEEC has realised the need for a workflow management system that must be able to support business processes that rely on geographically distributed co-operative work. Telework is an innovative form of work organisation for decentralised or information-based organisational structures whose tasks are independent of their location of execution. However, this organisational practice demands an efficient business process co-ordination or, to be more specific, demands a workflow management system. The work we intend to present is a prototype of the workflow enactment service which is a core component of the management system whose construction is the ultimate goal of the Telework Interest Group. The workflow enactment service, that is currently being built, is a software service that contains a workflow engine capable of creating, managing and executing workflow instances. 1 Engineering Faculty of Porto University 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers