• DocumentCode
    339906
  • Title

    The Liaison Workflow engine architecture

  • Author

    Leung, K.R.P.H. ; Chung, J.M.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong
  • Volume
    Track5
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    5-8 Jan. 1999
  • Abstract
    Liaison is a workflow management model that supports complex workflows and human resources management. Liaison System is the implementation of the Liaison Model. This paper discusses the architecture of the Liaison Workflow Engine, the core of the Liaison Workflow Management System, which is responsible for controlling workflows. Besides managing and controlling complex workflows and human resources, this Liaison Workflow Engine architecture is designed to have high flexibility so as to cope with heterogeneous distributed systems and different kinds of distributed workflow applications. The Liaison Workflow Engine consists of five major components, namely: Scheduler; Task Manager, Actor Manager, Information Manager and Actor Interface Manager. These components are responsible for workflow management, task management, job assignments, information management and interface management respectively. There are also Exception Handlers associated with Scheduler, Task Manager, Actor Manager and Information Manager to manage and handle exceptions in each of these components.
  • Keywords
    distributed object management; human resource management; software architecture; workflow management software; Actor Interface Manager; Actor Manager; Information Manager; Liaison Workflow engine architecture; Scheduler; Task Manager; complex workflows; distributed workflow applications; heterogeneous distributed systems; human resources management; information management; interface management; job assignments; task management; workflow management; workflow management model; Advertising; Computer architecture; Engines; Human factors; IEEE services; Permission; Resource management; Scheduling; Telephony; USA Councils;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Maui, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0001-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.1999.772960
  • Filename
    772960