DECLARE: Full Support for Loosely-Structured Processes

—Traditional Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) are not flexible enough to support loosely-structured processes. Furthermore, flexibility in contemporary WFMSs usually comes at a certain cost, such as lack of support for users, lack of methods for model analysis, lack of methods for analysis of past executions, etc. DECLARE is a prototype of a WFMS that uses a constraint-based process modeling language for the development of declarative models describing loosely-structured processes. In this paper we show how DECLARE can support loosely-structured processes without sacrificing important WFMSs features like user support, model verification, analysis of past executions, changing models at run-time, etc.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Maja Pesic, Helen Schonenberg, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
• Keywords: EDOC 2007, Loosely-structured Processes, Operating System, Past Executions, —traditional Workflow Management