Internet-Based Workflow May/June 2000
Guest Editors
Charles Petrie - Stanford University petrie@stanford.edu http://cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/bio.html
Sunil Sarin - InConcert Inc. sarin@inconcert.com http://www.inconcert.com/press/bios.htm
Submission Deadline 5 Nov 99
Workflow systems have become both more widely deployed and more adaptable in the last decade of the 20th century. Workflow systems traditionally were monolithic and required the installation of client software on the desktop. With the advent of Java, commercial software quickly moved towards applet-based clients and to more distributed systems.
More radically, workflow systems are increasingly taking advantage of Internet technologies to become more open. One example is the Workflow Management Coalition (http://www.aiim.org/wfmc/mainframe.htm) initiative to promote XML-based interoperability among workflow systems, which builds on earlier work on the draft Simple Workflow Access Protocol (SWAP) initiative. At a higher-level of abstraction are efforts to develop adaptable agent-based workflow systems (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~paj/ijcai-wflow-wshop/). These efforts are intensifying as the coordination of work among organizations becomes an important component of electronic commerce
We solicit papers on workflow and process management systems that leverage the technologies and openness of the Internet, including agent-based systems. We distinguish workflow and process management systems from collaborative systems in that the latter supports the sharing of information whereas the former also facilitate and automate the coordination and execution of processes, particularly for electronic commerce. Novel approaches, technical evaluations, and case studies of commercial deployments are invited especially.
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