Title :
Workspaces: a Web-based workflow management system
Author :
Tolksdorf, Robert
Author_Institution :
Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Workspaces is a Web-based WFMS developed at the Technical University of Berlin that attempts to deal with various shortcomings of Web-based workflow management systems by employing XML. The proposed architecture combines concepts from workflow management and coordination technology and uses XML for representation and the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) for processing. The author examines the system architecture and describes the prototype implementation developed with several diploma students for an experimental evaluation of the ideas.
Keywords :
Internet; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; workflow management software; Coordination technology; Extensible Stylesheet Language; Web-based WFMS; Web-based workflow management system; Workspaces; XML; XSL; distributed workflows; prototype implementation; system architecture; Collaborative work; Graphical user interfaces; Internet; Protocols; Prototypes; Search engines; Standards organizations; Technology management; Workflow management software; XML;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2002.1036034
