Paper Info
Title
Towards Temporal Information in Workflow Systems
Abstract
A workflow management system (WfMS) is a software system that supports the coordinated execution of different simple activities, assigning them to human or automatic executors, to achieve a common goal defined for a business process. Temporal aspects of stored information cannot be neglected and the adoption of a temporal database management system (TDBMS) could benefit. By this paper we scratch the surface of the topic related to the use of a TDBMS in a WfMS, identifying some advantages in managing temporal aspects by a TDBMS inside some of the components of a WfMS. E.g., queries to reconstruct the schema of the business process or to assign activities to executors balancing their workload over time, or the definition of constraints among tasks can benefit from the use of a TDBMS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/978-3-540-45275-1_2
ADVANCED CONCEPTUAL MODELING TECHNIQUES
Keywords
Field
DocType
business process,temporal database,workflow management system,software systems,management system
Business process management,Workflow technology,Business process,Computer science,Windows Workflow Foundation,XPDL,Workflow engine,Workflow,Workflow management system,Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2784
0302-9743
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlo COMBI199389.90
Giuseppe Pozzi21159.02