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Enterprise frameworks for workflow management systems
Author(s) -
Gimenes Itana M. S.,
Barroca Leonor
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.457
Subject(s) - workflow , computer science , interoperability , software engineering , workflow management system , workflow technology , workflow engine , scheduling (production processes) , enterprise modelling , legacy code , legacy system , process management , enterprise integration , knowledge management , database , enterprise software , engineering , programming language , software , operating system , operations management
Abstract This paper proposes an enterprise framework for workflow management (WFM) systems based on the Workflow Management Coalition generic architecture. In addition, it presents one smaller object‐oriented framework for task scheduling. This framework is obtained by refining one of the packages of the overall framework. The task scheduling framework was designed following the concept of model framework as in Catalysis. This sort of framework can be used as a template to generate code components within an application domain. According to this approach we can develop WFM components that can interoperate within a well‐defined enterprise framework. This paper also presents the process of developing interoperable code components from model frameworks. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.