A cooperative workflow management system with the Meta-Object Facility

In order to be completely adopted by industry, workflow management systems (WFMS) have to provide a more complete support to organisational processes. The cooperation is part of the missing features. The authors propose to integrate a computer supported cooperative work system in a WFMS to solve the...

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Published inProceedings Fifth IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference pp. 273 - 280
Main Authors Le Pallec, X., Vantroys, T.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2001
Subjects
Bridges
Collaborative software
Collaborative work
Computer architecture
Construction industry
Data warehouses
Management training
Runtime
Technology management
Workflow management software
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Summary:In order to be completely adopted by industry, workflow management systems (WFMS) have to provide a more complete support to organisational processes. The cooperation is part of the missing features. The authors propose to integrate a computer supported cooperative work system in a WFMS to solve the cooperation problem. This integration consists of interoperability between the two systems thanks to the Meta-Object Facility and inheritance. By describing the construction scenario of the bridge between the two systems, the paper shows the benefits of using MOF for achieving interoperability.
ISBN:9780769513454
076951345X
DOI:10.1109/EDOC.2001.950446