Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems)

✍ Scribed by Wil van der Aalst, Kees van Hee

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the right person or computer application at the right time. The book provides a basic overview of workflow terminology and organization, as well as detailed coverage of workflow modeling with Petri nets. Because Petri nets make definitions easier to understand for nonexperts, they facilitate communication between designers and users. The book includes a chapter of case studies, review exercises, and a glossary.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page p0006.djvu
Series Foreword......Page p0008.djvu
Acknowledgments......Page p0012.djvu
Introduction......Page p0014.djvu
1 Organizing Workflows......Page p0018.djvu
2 Modeling Workflows......Page p0048.djvu
3 Management of Workflows......Page p0092.djvu
4 Analyzing Workflows......Page p0116.djvu
5 Functions and Architecture of Workflow Systems......Page p0162.djvu
6 Roadmap for Workflow System Development......Page p0228.djvu
7 Sagitta 2000 Case Study......Page p0260.djvu
Appendix A: Workflow Theory......Page p0284.djvu
Appendix B: Workflow Modeling Using UML......Page p0310.djvu
Solutions to Exercises......Page p0322.djvu
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