TY - GEN
T1 - CA-PLAN, an inter-organizational workflow model
AU - Yan, Shung Bin
AU - Wang, Feng-Jian
PY - 2004/10/19
Y1 - 2004/10/19
N2 - Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are accepted worldwide due to their ability of modeling and controlling business processes. In the past, we defined an intra-organizational workflow specification model, Process LANguage PLAN. PLAN, with the associated tools, allows user to describe the graph specification for porcesses, artifacts and participants' organization. PLAN has been successfully implemented in Agentflow and run with workflow (Agentflow) applications. PLAN and most current WfMSs adopt the centralized architecture in an organization, so that they can be applied in an organization only. The participants in different organizations cannot serve one another with workflows. In this paper, we present an inter-organizational workflow model, Collaborative Agentflow Process LANguage. CA-PLAN, extended from PLAN, let workflow systems inside an organization be specified as workflow services provided by the organization. Its inter-organizational architecture make user specify work applications as in PLAN. Besides, the related service techniques and supporting tools provided in Agentflow systems are presented.
AB - Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are accepted worldwide due to their ability of modeling and controlling business processes. In the past, we defined an intra-organizational workflow specification model, Process LANguage PLAN. PLAN, with the associated tools, allows user to describe the graph specification for porcesses, artifacts and participants' organization. PLAN has been successfully implemented in Agentflow and run with workflow (Agentflow) applications. PLAN and most current WfMSs adopt the centralized architecture in an organization, so that they can be applied in an organization only. The participants in different organizations cannot serve one another with workflows. In this paper, we present an inter-organizational workflow model, Collaborative Agentflow Process LANguage. CA-PLAN, extended from PLAN, let workflow systems inside an organization be specified as workflow services provided by the organization. Its inter-organizational architecture make user specify work applications as in PLAN. Besides, the related service techniques and supporting tools provided in Agentflow systems are presented.
KW - Service specification
KW - Workflow management system
KW - Workflow organization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=5044225429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FTDCS.2004.1316608
DO - 10.1109/FTDCS.2004.1316608
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:5044225429
SN - 0769521185
T3 - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
SP - 154
EP - 162
BT - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
T2 - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Y2 - 26 May 2004 through 28 May 2004
ER -