Modeling workflows with a process-view approach

Abstract

Diverse requirements of participants involved in a business process bring forth the need of a flexible process model capable of providing appropriate process information for various participants. However current activity-based approach is nor adequate to provide different participants with varied process information. This work describes a novel process-view model for workflow management. A process-view is an abstracted process derived from a base process to provide abstracted process information. The underlying concept and formal model of a process-view are presented. Moreover: a novel ordering-preserved approach is proposed to derive a process-view from a base process. The proposed approach enhances the flexibility and functionality of conventional activity-based workflow management systems.