An editing system for working processes

Author

Chen, Yin-Shinn ; Wang, Feng-Jian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

338

Abstract

Business processes are often complex and varying. Workflow technologies help people minimize errors and delays in the progress of a process within an enterprise. Within a workflow management system (WFMS), a process or even a project can be specified and interpreted to work directly. In this paper, we present an editing system and its two major components, PDE (Process Definition Editor) and FormDesigner, for the specification of a process. PDE is a graphical editor for constructing /modifying process definitions. FormDesigner assumes the responsibility of integrating software components for building/modifying active application forms. With PDE and FormDesigner, a workflow application system can be constructed/modified rapidly and easily so that the WFMS is allowed to run smoothly

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; formal specification; subroutines; workflow management software; FormDesigner; PDE; Process Definition Editor; active application forms; business processes; component-based development; delay minimization; error minimization; graphical editor; process modelling; process specification; software components integration; workflow application systems; workflow management system; working process editing system; Application software; Buildings; Business process re-engineering; Computer errors; Computer science; Delay; Management information systems; Object oriented modeling; Software engineering; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2001. COMPSAC 2001. 25th Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1372-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.2001.960636

Filename

960636