A workflow specification is a formal description of business processes in the real world. Its correctness is critical to the workflow execution and hence the realisation of business objectives. In addition to structural and temporal constraints, resource constraints are also implied in workflow specifications. Therefore, they should be analysed to ensure that the workflow specification is resou...

The Geodise project brings computer scientists and engineer’s skills together to build up a serviceoriented computing environment for engineers to perform complicated computations in a distributed system. The workflow tool is a front GUI to provide a full life cycle of workflow functions for Gridenabled computing. The full life cycle of workflow functions have been enhanced based our initial re...

The effective implementation of workflow system in manufacture enterprises enables the enterprises to achieve the benefits associated with the integration, automation and management of their business process. The conventional workflow model based approaches hinder the change of workflow logic flexibly. These approaches face difficulties in satisfying the changing market demands, meeting the dem...

Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, i.e., a completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process which is often hampered by the limitations of the workflow language being used. To identify the differences between the various languages, we have co...

Workflow modeling is the premise of workflow management. The present paper introduces the general abstraction theory of physical world into workflow modeling to propose a novel method for hierarchical workflow abstraction modeling. Through perceiving the specific workflows running in a particular field, the workflow perceptions are obtained. A formal process is defined to learn from the acquire...

Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, i.e., a completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process which is often hampered by the limitations of the workflow language being used. To identify the differences between the various languages, we have co...

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of “workflow-supported organizational social networks.” These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organi...

In an E-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Therefore, workflow interoperability in such an environment is an important issue for enacting workflows. In this paper, we introduce our approach of using workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow interoperability and for controlled (sub-) workflows visibil...

Today’s workflow management systems have problems dealing with both ad-hoc changes and evolutionary changes. As a result, the workflow management system is not used to support dynamically changing workflow processes or the workflow process is supported in a rigid manner, i.e., changes are not allowed or handled outside of the workflow management system. This paper addresses two notorious proble...

Engineering workflow applications are becoming more and more complex, involving numerous interacting business objects within considerable processes. Analysing the interaction structure of those complex applications will enable them to be well understood, controlled, and redesigned. Our contribution to workflow mining is a statistical technique to discover workflow patterns from event-based log....