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What is Workflow System

Chapter 5
Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling
A workflow system is one that supports the workflows in a specific business situation. It usually consists of a workflow management system (e.g. a workflow engine) plus process and resource classification definitions, applications, a database system, and so on.
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Yet Another Workflow Language: Concepts, Tool Support, and Application
Chun Ouyang (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Michael Adams (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), and Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-288-6.ch005
Abstract
Due to the absence of commonly accepted conceptual and formal foundations for workflow management, and more generally Business Process Management (BPM), a plethora of approaches to process modelling and execution exists both in academia and in industry. The introduction of workflow patterns provided a deep and language independent understanding of modelling issues and requirements encountered in business process specification. They provide a comparative insight into various approaches to process specification and serve as guidance for language and tool development. YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) is a novel and formally defined workflow language based on workflow patterns and Petri nets, thus leveraging off both practical and theoretical insights in the field of BPM. This chapter provides an overview of this language and its corresponding open source support environment.
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Chapter 3
Data Provenance in Scientific Workflows
A workflow system, a.k.a. workflow management system, is a software responsible for enacting workflows. It instantiates the activities that compose a workflow, assigns their execution to agents and coordinates these executions.
Published in Chapter: Data Provenance in Scientific Workflows; From: Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Healthcare
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