Database Support for Workflow Management

Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management. The book discusses the state of the art in combining database management and workflow management technology, especially in the areas of transaction and exception management. This technology is complemented by a high-level conceptual workflow model and associated workflow application design methodology. In WIDE, advanced base technology is applied, like a distributed computing model based on the corba standard. The usability of the WIDE approach is documented in this book by a discussion of two real-world applications from the insurance and health care domains.
Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project serves as an excellent reference, and may be used for advanced courses on database and workflow management systems.

Autorentext
Barbara Pernici is full professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests include cooperative information systems, workflow management systems, information systems modeling and design, mobile information systems, temporal databases, applications of database technology.

Klappentext

Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management. The book discusses the state of the art in combining database management and workflow management technology, especially in the areas of transaction and exception management. This technology is complemented by a high-level conceptual workflow model and associated workflow application design methodology. In WIDE, advanced base technology is applied, like a distributed computing model based on the corba standard. The usability of the WIDE approach is documented in this book by a discussion of two real-world applications from the insurance and health care domains. Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project serves as an excellent reference, and may be used for advanced courses on database and workflow management systems.

Inhalt
One: Introduction To The WIDE Project.- 1 Workflow Management and Database Technology.- 2 The WIDE Approach to Workflow Management.- Two: The WIDE Workflow Model.- 3 Conceptual Workflow Model.- 4 Workflow Design Methodology.- Three: The WIDE Workflow System.- 5 Data Support.- 6 Transaction Support.- 7 Active Rule Support.- 8 Workflow Support.- Four: WIDE Applications.- 9 Medical Insurance Application.- 10 Short-Stay Surgery.- Concluding Remarks.- APPENDICES.- A Wide Wpdl.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 The WPDL grammar: basic structures.- A.2.1 Grammar and language constructs.- A.3 WIDE WPDL: process and entities definitions.- A.3.1 Workflow entities.- A.3.2 Transition definition.- A.2.3 Chimera exceptions definition.- B Details Global Travel International.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Process model definition.- B.3 Information model definition.- C Details Medical Insurance Application.- C.1 Introduction.- C.2 Information model definition.- C.3 Workflow definition.- D Details Short-Stay Surgery Application.- D.1 Introduction.- D.2 Triggers.- D.3 Business transactions.- D.4 Information models.- D.5 Workflow definition.- E WIDE Publications.- E.1 Conference papers.- E.2 Journal papers.- E.3 Magazine papers.- E.4 Technical reports.- E.5 WIDE newsletters.