Database Support for Workflow Management

The WIDE Project
1999
ISBN: 978-0-7923-8414-4
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 491, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1320 g

Reihe: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management. The book discusses the state of the art in combining database management and workflow management technology, especially in the areas of transaction and exception management. This technology is complemented by a high-level conceptual workflow model and associated workflow application design methodology. In WIDE, advanced base technology is applied, like a distributed computing model based on the corba standard. The usability of the WIDE approach is documented in this book by a discussion of two real-world applications from the insurance and health care domains.
serves as an excellent reference, and may be used for advanced courses on database and workflow management systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grefen, Paul

Sánchez, Gabriel

Pernici, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Informationstheorie, Kodierungstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

One: Introduction To The WIDE Project.- 1 Workflow Management and Database Technology.- 2 The WIDE Approach to Workflow Management.- Two: The WIDE Workflow Model.- 3 Conceptual Workflow Model.- 4 Workflow Design Methodology.- Three: The WIDE Workflow System.- 5 Data Support.- 6 Transaction Support.- 7 Active Rule Support.- 8 Workflow Support.- Four: WIDE Applications.- 9 Medical Insurance Application.- 10 Short-Stay Surgery.- Concluding Remarks.- APPENDICES.- A Wide Wpdl.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 The WPDL grammar: basic structures.- A.2.1 Grammar and language constructs.- A.3 WIDE WPDL: process and entities definitions.- A.3.1 Workflow entities.- A.3.2 Transition definition.- A.2.3 Chimera exceptions definition.- B Details Global Travel International.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Process model definition.- B.3 Information model definition.- C Details Medical Insurance Application.- C.1 Introduction.- C.2 Information model definition.- C.3 Workflow definition.- D Details Short-Stay Surgery Application.- D.1 Introduction.- D.2 Triggers.- D.3 Business transactions.- D.4 Information models.- D.5 Workflow definition.- E WIDE Publications.- E.1 Conference papers.- E.2 Journal papers.- E.3 Magazine papers.- E.4 Technical reports.- E.5 WIDE newsletters.