Workflow management (or Business Process Automation) deals with the automation of business processes through software. A workflow management systems coordinates process instances according to a formal model of the process (the workflow model), and matches individual activities with properly qualified resources for execution. This section contains a collection of research topics and projects relating to workflow management and process automation technology.
Sub Directory
Centers
People
Relate Directory
Management / Business Process Analysis
Service-Oriented Architecture / Web Services
Site
Exotica
IBM Almaden Research Center - Extension of the FlowMark workflow engine with mobile client support and message queueing. Contains publications and presentations related to the project. [project completed]
WEAVE
State University of New York, StonyBrook, USA - Deals with the development of enabling tools and technologies for web-based virtual enterprises. Includes a list of papers on transaction logic and related topics. [project completed]
Process Interchange Format
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - PIF facilitates the exchange of process models. This language was used in the process handbook project. Contains the specification, workshop results and links to related projects. [completed, merged with PSL]
JOpera: Process Support for more than Web Services
Ongoing research project to build a process-based system for Web service composition featuring an Eclipse-based visual composition and debugging environment as well as an autonomic execution engine that scales on a cluster of computers to handle large workloads.
Workflow Patterns
TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands - A collection of process patterns used for the evaluation of workflow management systems and related standards. Contains the patterns, evaluation reports and further documentation. Maintained by Wil van der Aalst and Arthur ter Hofstede.
SWIM
Aims at the development of an infrastructure that manages the information flow between agents in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance scenarios. Contains the project description and links to project-related publications. [project completed]
Status Quo Business Process Management
Project page of an annual survey about the status quo of business process management in european companies. Conducted by the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. [in German]
Babel
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane - Analyzes the expressiveness of process modeling languages.
ANAISOFT
University of Geneva, Switzerland - Deals with an advanced network and agent infrastructure for the support of federations of workflow trading systems. Contains the project charter and some publications in PDF format. [project completed]
Knowledge-based Workflow System for Grid Applications
The K-Wf Grid project is a European research project with the objective to enable the knowledge-based support of workflow construction and execution in a Grid computing environment
METEOR
University of Georgia, USA - Aims at the reliable support of large-scale, complex and adaptive workflow applications in real-world multi-enterprise heterogeneous computing environments. Contains publications in PDF format. [project completed]
Web Search
BPM Research - Standards, Research & Innovation around Business Process ...
URL : www.bpm-research.com
Posted by: Michael zur Muehlen in Research, Standards, modeling ... What every Enterprise Architect should know about BPM and Workflow ...[2008/11/26]
Workflow Tasks
URL : cudenver.edu/International/CIBER/Research/WorkflowTasks/AllItems.aspx
Research Development and Education. Continuing-Prof. Education ... Home > International > CIBER > Research > Workflow Tasks. Workflow Tasks. Quick Launch ...[2008/11/23]
CTRG Research Overview
URL : www.cs.colorado.edu/~skip/ctrgOview.html
CTRG Groupware and Workflow Research. at. The University of Colorado. NSF Principal Investigator: ... The CTRG workflow research is addressing these issues. ...[1997/02/28]
DelphiGroup.com - Research - Books - The Workflow Imperative
URL : www.delphigroup.com/research/book_pubs/workimp.htm
Delphi Group delivers strategic advantage at the intersection of business and IT, through consulting, events, vendor services and research.[2007/06/19]
Workflow Management Research Group WFM
URL : www.isi.edu/~deelman/wfm-rg
The workflow management research group will focus on a variety of aspects of ... Workflow Management Research in Web Services and Applicability to Grid ...[2007/07/03]
www.benchmarkrs.com/main/research/work-flow-analysis.aspx
URL : www.benchmarkrs.com/main/research/work-flow-analysis.aspx
... Research & Safety, ... Research and Design for Usability >> User Experience Research > ... Work-flow analysis (also called "task analysis") is used to ...[2008/11/28]
Modeling Clinical Trials Workflow in Community Practice Settings
URL : pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17238375
Third, workflow associated with the conduct of clinical research in community ... using time-motion observations, to determine the workflow of clinical research ...[2008/11/11]
Help in Workflow Automation - BPM Research Forums
URL : www.bpm-research.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=561
BPM Research Forums > Process Management and Workflow Automation > Student Corner ... I'm starting a research in Workflow automation .. But I know a little ...[2008/11/24]
The Open-Source Neuroimaging Research Enterprise
URL : www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2039786
Here, we model the neuroimaging research enterprise as a workflow. ... Key words: Biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, neuroinformatics, DICOM, XNAT, research workflow ...[2008/11/14]
The embedded library: Leveraging systems in research workflow ...
URL : pop.umn.edu/events/mpc_seminars_series/Abstracts/...
Wendy Pradt Lougee, University of Minnesota Libraries ... Research. Events. Training ... to better understand scholars' behavior and challenges in research workflow. ...[2008/11/25]
©www.freeaq.net - 2008
POWERED BY FreeBSD 7.0