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.... a job into tasks then coordinating the execution of those tasks left to human ingenuity (e.g. see [9] The workflow camp also advocates the use of computers for personal productivity, but believes that the system should also play a hand in coordinating the execution of the tasks (e.g. see [16, 26, 34, 38]) It is beyond the scope of this paper to address all the details of the differences between these two camps; suffice it to say that they are essentially at an im 1 Of course applets in an HTML document interact with their server at a much finer grain than a file, though they, too, have not ....

Amit Sheth, editor. NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems: Stateof -the-art and Future Directions. NSF and the University of Georgia, 1996.

....and these type constraints are subject to unanticipated deviations just as much as the process descriptions themselves. For example, the forms may need additional annotations fields, may require multiple values where a single one is originally allowed for, may contain values of dif 1 See [33] for an inter disciplinary workshop on this topic. ferent type than the one anticipated (e.g. French Francs instead of US dollars) The aim of the present paper is to propose a mechanism for handling exceptional occurrences in workflows which (i) integrates data and process deviation handling; ....

A.Sheth editor, NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems, May 1996, Athens, Georgia.

....has been used to model and enact a software development process. This paper illustrates the main achievements of our work and is structured as follows. Section 2 presents the main concepts of MOOs and their high level ar 1 In this paper, we consider the terms process and workflow as synonymous [10]. Consistently, we do not make any distinction between PCEs (Process Centered Environments) and WFMSs (WorkFlow Management Systems) Room Exit Thing Character Is home of Accesses Is contained in Owns Accepts Is contained in Accesses Invokes verbs on Accepts Holds Invokes verbs on Figure 1: Main ....

Amit Sheth, editor. NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions. May 1996.

....decentralization, a method for the partitioning of workflow specifications is developed. It is proven that the partitioning preserves the original state chart s behavior. 1 Introduction Workflow management is a rapidly growing research and development area of very high practical relevance [GHS95, Mo96, VB96, WfMC95, Sh96]. Typical examples of (semi automated) workflows are the processing of a credit request in a bank, the edito rial handling and refereeing process for papers in an electronic journal, or the medical treatment of patients in a hospital. Informally, a workflow consists of a set of activities ....

A. Sheth (ed.), Proc. NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems, Athens, 1996, http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/activities/NSF--workflow/

....information systems in the future is the development of robust workflow management systems. Collaborative design, Health care information systems and data processing on the Internet are examples of applications that will demand automation of management of information workflow (see [GHS95, Moh96, She96] for examples) There are many commercial products to model and execute workflows but the current state of the art lacks clear theoretical basis, defined correctness criteria, support for consistency of concurrent workflows and support for reliability in the presence of failures or exceptions ....

A. Sheth. Proc. of the NSF workshop on workflow and process automation in information systesm, 1996. URL: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/activities/NSF-workflow.

....information systems in the future is the development of robust workflow management systems. Collaborative design, Health care information systems and data processing on the Internet are examples of applications that will demand automation of management of information workflow (see [GHS95, Moh96, She96] for examples) A workflow is an automated process which controls and coordinates various activities that need to be executed in order to achieve a desired goal. The primary goal of the Workflow Management Systems is to provide support (tools) for modeling, executing and monitoring the workflows. ....

A. Sheth. Proc. of the NSF workshop on workflow and process automation in information systesm, 1996. URL: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/activities/NSF-workflow.

....areas and involve several organizations, they potentially represent 1 a major security risk. This paper focuses on security for Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) utilizing Web technology because of their importance and associated risk. The METEORWfMS [Krishnakumar and Sheth, 1995, Sheth, 1996] emphasizes Web technology. It includes two enactment services: WebWork [Miller et al. 1998] which is purely Web based and ORBWork [Kochut et al. 1999] which uses both Web and CORBA (OrbixWeb) technology. Workflow Management Systems provide an automated framework for managing intra and ....

....telecommunication, manufacturing, finance, banking and office automation. WfMSs are being used today to reengineer, streamline, automate and track organizational processes involving human and automated information systems [Joosten et al. 1994, Georgakopoulos et al. 1995, Fischer, 1995, Sheth et al. 1996b, Sheth et al. 1996a] The success of WfMSs has been driven by the need for businesses to stay technologically ahead of the ever increasing competition in typically global markets. Web technology is an appropriate choice for a workflow infrastructure for two distinct and important reasons. First, ....

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....by different processing entities [Krishnakumar and Sheth, 1995] A workflow process is an automated organizational process involving both human and automated tasks. Workflow management is the automated coordination, control and communication of work as is required to satisfy workflow processes [Sheth et al. 1996a] There has been a growing acceptance of workflow technology in numerous application domains such as telecommunications, software engineering, manufacturing, production, finance and banking, health care, shipping and office automation [Smith, 1993, Joosten et al. 1994, Georgakopoulos et al. ....

.... technology in numerous application domains such as telecommunications, software engineering, manufacturing, production, finance and banking, health care, shipping and office automation [Smith, 1993, Joosten et al. 1994, Georgakopoulos et al. 1995, Fischer, 1995, Tang and Veijalainen, 1995, Sheth et al. 1996b, Palaniswami et al. 1996, Bonner et al. 1996, Perry et al. 1996] Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) are being used in inter and intraenterprise environments to re engineer, streamline, automate, and track organizational processes involving humans and automated information systems. In ....

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....risk. In addition, security approaches useful for Web based WfMSs will also be useful in other types of WfMSs. In the METEOR project, we have an ideal testbed with which to explore several security issues for Web based workflows. We have devel1 oped a Web Based WfMS, METEOR WebWork [MPS 97, She96] which is commercially available through Infocosm, Inc. Two key aspects of security will be addressed in depth in this paper, secure communication and access control. Secure communication makes it impossible to intercept and make any sense out of messages sent across networks. It can also ....

A. Sheth. Proc. of the NSF workshop on workflow and process automation in information systems. University of Georgia, May 1996. URL: http://LSDIS.cs.uga.edu/activities/NSF-workflow.

....longer term. It mainly relates to supporting a broader aspect of organizational activities. To support these, the workflow technology, owing to its emphasis on coordination, is only a part of the solution. Following the recent NSF workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems[She96] the report by a multidisciplinary group of researchers noted [SGJ 96] Work Activity Coordination involves such multidisciplinary research and goes beyond the current thinking in contemporary workflow management and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) In particular, instead of ....

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Proc. NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation Inf. Sys. Athens, Georgia. Karbe, B., Ramsperger, N., and Weiss, P. (1990). Support of Cooperative Work by Electronic Circulation Folders, SIGOIS Bulletin, 11, 109-117.

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