Building business processes using a state transition model on World Wide Web

Author

Huang, Shou-Hsuan Stephen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Houston Univ., TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

26-28 Mar 1998

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Describes a state transition model to build a business process using the World Wide Web (WWW) as the user interface. A process is modeled as a collection of states, with each task represented by one state and several types of transition between states. The workflow model proposed in this paper allows the user to execute tasks concurrently, thus reducing the overall execution time. The design of the system to support integrated workflow and implementation issues using ODBC and WWW is discussed in the paper. This system allows users to collaborate on a job in distributed environment

Keywords

Internet; business data processing; groupware; multiprocessing systems; user interfaces; Internet; ODBC; World Wide Web; business processes; collaboration; concurrent task execution; distributed environment; implementation issues; overall execution time; state transition model; user interface; workflow model; Access protocols; Automation; Computer science; Delay; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic mail; Identity-based encryption; Internet; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application-Specific Software Engineering Technology, 1998. ASSET-98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Richardson, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8582-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSET.1998.688225

Filename

688225