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....present paper develops a framework for such a linkage. Specifically, it develops the BROOM (Business Reengineering with Object Oriented Modelling) process modelling approach that links the object oriented method OMT method (Rumbaugh, 1991) to the workflow mapping method of Action Workflow Analysis (Medina Mora et al. 1993). In order to ensure compatibility between the objectoriented process description and the process mapping of the Workflow Analyst, a number of mapping rules and constraints were developed and applied. The BROOM approach has been successfully applied within an overall reengineering effort of the ....

....in the section 4. The workflow approach adopted in BROOM: the AWA method The foundation of Action Workflow Analysis (AWA) is based upon a network of speech acts, in which an interplay of requests and commitments are directed towards explicit cooperative action model (Winograd Flores, 1987; Medina Mora et al. 1993). This work builds upon linguistic ideas, first examined by the philosopher J.L. Austin, and develops the Conversation for Action model. The basic points of AWA theory are: organisations exist as networks of directives and commisives. Directives include orders, requests, consultations and ....

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Medina-Mora, R., Winograd, T. & Flores, P. (1993) Action workflow as the enterprise integration technology. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. IEEE Computer Society. 16(2).

....in others they are recorded in textual codes of practice, in others they are documented in (semi ) formal representations and or software modelling tools. In recent years, a new class of software infrastructure product to support business processes has emerged: Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) [3,4,18,24]. A WfMS can provide active support to a business process by controlling the routing of work around the organisation automatically. This is done based on input describing the flow, the decisions, the exceptions, the resource to be used, etc. It co ordinates user and system participants, together ....

Medina-Mora, R. Winograd, T. and Flores P. Action Workflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 6(2), 1993. IEEE Computer Society.

....and Reuter, 1992] Most of these early efforts were limited in their scope and did not address business processes in their full generality. More recently, several high level designs have been proposed for modeling and managing business processes [Tomlison et al. 1993] McCarthy and Sarin, 1993] [Medina Mora et al. 1993], Sheth, 1994] but most of them are centralized and fail to address issues such as high availability, failure resilience or scalability. Moreover, they tend to be transactional in nature and too centered around databases, which contrast with the reference model created by software vendors ....

Medina-Mora, R., Wong, H., and Flores, P. (1993). ActionWorkflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 16(2). IEEE Computer Society.

....management as it is today: image processing, document management, electronic mail and directories, groupware, transactional systems, project support applications, and business process re engineering and structured system design tools. Even one of the most popular workflow modeling paradigms [1, 39] can be traced back to early work on artificial intelligence and speech theory. In general, the need for workflow functionality was identified long ago by different communities as they realized the potential offered by computers and communications. For instance, just in the last decade, similar ....

R. Medina-Mora, H.K. Wong and P. Flores, "ActionWorkflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology", Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 16(2), June, 1993.

....who manipulated physical objects. With the introduction of information technology, processes in the work place are partially or totally automated by information systems, i.e. computer programs performing tasks and enforcing rules which were previously implemented by humans. Medina Mora et al. [32] categorize processes in an organization into material processes, information processes, and business processes. The scope of a material process is to assemble physical components and deliver physical products. That is, material pro 120 cesses relate human tasks that are rooted in the physical ....

R. Medina-Mora, T. Winograd, and R. Flores, "ActionWorkflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology," Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 16, No.2, June, 1993.

....2.1) presents the case for an agentbased solution (section 2.2) identifies and justifies ADEPT s key conceptual components (section 2.3) and indicates how these components are used to build agent based solutions (section 2.4) 2. 1 The Basics of Business Process Management Medina Mora et al. [28] categorise processes in an organisation into material processes (the assembly of physical components or the delivery of physical products) information processes (related to the automated and partially automated tasks that create, process, manage, and provide information) and business processes ....

R. Medina-Mora, T. Winograd, and R. Flores, Action Workflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society 16 (2) 1993.

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