Improving Workflow Management System Implementation with Workflow Localization Method

Abstract:

The workflow management system plays an important role in enterprise information management system. An enterprise workflow contains a lot of business process and their relevancies. These relevancies are important in building workflow management system. This paper proposes a business relevance based workflow localization method to divide the workflow locally. In this method, a workflow is treated as a combination of local processes; therefore single task can be divided into several subtasks. This method can reduce the difficulty and improve the efficiency in building workflow management system. This method has been practically applied to the design and development of steel pipe production supervision control system. The actual results validate the effectiveness of the proposed workflow localization method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 513-517)
• Pages: 3859-3863
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.513-517.3859
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Xin Tong*, Xiao Long Zhang, Xin Xu, Ju Hong Qi
• Keywords: Business Relevance, Local Division, Local Process, Workflow Localization, Workflow Management System

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