Internet-Based Workflow
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
May/June 2000 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/).
We solicit papers on workflow and process management systems that leverage the technologies and openness of the Internet. 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. Novel approaches, technical evaluations, and case studies of commercial deployments are invited especially.All papers will be peer-reviewed.
Authors should read carefully the IEEE Internet Computing guidelines at http://computer.org/internet/edguide.htm Papers must be in a standard non-proprietary format such as HTML, PostScript, or PDF. Authors should send an email to either of the Guest Editors with a URL pointing to the paper submission. If this is not possible, submissions may be an HTML, PostScript, or PDF email attachment.
In general, industrial papers (describing technologies and/or case histories) should be sent to Sarin and research papers to Petrie.
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