SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model

F. Gottschalk, W.M.P. Aalst, van der, M.H. Jansen-Vullers

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To facilitate the implementation of workflows, enterprise and workflow system vendors typically provide workflow templates for their software. Each of these templates depicts a variant of how the software supports a certain business process, allowing the user to save the effort of creating models and links to system components from scratch by selecting and activating the appropriate template. A combination of the strengths from different templates is however only achievable by manually adapting the templates which is cumbersome. We therefore suggest in this paper to combine different workflow templates into a single configurable workflow template. Using the workflow modeling language of SAP’s WebFlow engine, we show how such a configurable workflow modeling language can be created by identifying the configurable elements in the original language. Requirements imposed on configurations inhibit invalid configurations. Based on a default configuration such configurable templates can be used as easy as the traditional templates. The suggested approach is also applicable to other workflow modeling languages.
Originele taal-2Engels
TitelProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia
RedacteurenG. Alonso, P. Dadam, M. Rosemann
Plaats van productieBerlin
UitgeverijSpringer
Pagina's262-279
ISBN van geprinte versie978-3-540-75182-3
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 2007
Evenement5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) - Brisbane, Australië
Duur: 24 sep. 200728 sep. 2007
Congresnummer: 5

Publicatie series

NaamLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume4714
ISSN van geprinte versie0302-9743

Congres

Congres5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007)
Verkorte titelBPM 2007
Land/RegioAustralië
StadBrisbane
Periode24/09/0728/09/07
AnderBPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia

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