Open Source Software for Workflow Management: The Case of YAWL

Author

Adams, Michael ; Hofstede, Arthur H M ter ; Rosa, Marcello La

Author_Institution

BPM Group, Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

2011

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Workflow management systems support business process design, execution, and analysis. They must guarantee that work is conducted at the right time-and by the right person or software application-through the execution of a workflow process model. YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) was developed in 2002 to show that comprehensive support for workflow patterns is achievable. Soon after the lan guage´s inception, a prototype system was built to show that system support for such a complex language was possible. From that initial prototype, YAWL has grown into a full-fledged open source workflow management system and support environment.

Keywords

programming languages; public domain software; workflow management software; YAWL; business process design; open source software; workflow management systems; yet another workflow language; Industries; Internet; Java; Open source software; Software development management; Workflow management software; LGPL; YAWL; open source; workflow; workflow management system;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2011.58

Filename

5756292