employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...

Worklr (Workflow enhanced with Live Recommendations) is a workflow tool that relies on one of the most known user experience (UX) pattern: the exchange of email messages. In organizations that do not have workflow systems guiding their business processes, knowledge workers rely on technologies like telephone, email or fax, to interact and attain their business process goals. Knowledge workers o...

In this paper we present a collection of high level workflow activity patterns based on the semantic of specific business functions (e.g., notification, task execution request, approval). In particular we discuss three pattern samples (approval, unidirectional and decision patterns). Moreover we gather the results of an analysis of their adoption on a wide set of real workflow processes (models...

The stochastic modelling of biological systems, coupled with Monte Carlo simulation of models, is an increasingly popular technique in bioinformatics. The simulation-analysis workflow may result computationally expensive reducing the interactivity required in the model tuning. In this work, we advocate the high-level software design as a vehicle for building efficient and portable parallel simu...

A smooth orchestrator is a process with several alternative branches, every one defining synchronizations among co-located channels. Smooth orchestrators constitute a basic mechanism that may express standard workflow patterns in Web services as well as common synchronization constructs in programming languages. Smooth orchestrators may be created in one location and migrated to a different one...

Due to their high level of abstraction and their reusability, workflow patterns are increasingly attracting the interest of both BPM researchers and BPM tool vendors. Frequently, process models can be assembled out of a set of recurrent business functions (e.g., task execution request, approval, notification), each of them having generic semantics that can be described as activity pattern. To o...

Workflow tools have been successfully applied to automate work in many situations where the work is well regulated, there is a stable pattern of work, and there is a sufficiently high volume or sufficiently high importance to justify the cost of automating the activities. In many other circumstances there is a very mixed story of success and failure of workflow implementation. The Web also has ...

Grid computing and workflow management systems emerged as solutions to the challenges arising from the processing and storage of shear volumes of data generated by modern simulations and data acquisition devices. Workflow management systems usually document the process of the workflow execution either as structured provenance information or as log files. Provenance is recognized as an important...

In order to perform process-aware information systems we need sophisticated methods and concepts for designing and modeling processes. Recently, research on workflow patterns has emerged in order to increase the reuse of recurring workflow structures. However, current workflow modeling tools do not provide functionalities that enable users to define, query, and reuse workflow patterns properly....

The current period of IT development is characterized by an explosive growth of diverse information representation languages. Applying integration and composition of heterogeneous information components it is required to develop the canonical information model serving for adequate expression of semantics of various information models used in the environment encompassing required heterogeneous c...