Workflow Management Coalition

La Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) es un consorcio industrial formado para definir estándares para la interoperabilidad de sistemas de gestión de flujos de trabajo. Fue fundada en mayo de 1993 como una división del Black Forest Group siendo miembros originales IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, ICL, Staffware y aproximadamente 300 firmas de software y servicios en el sector del software de negocios. Desde su fundación, el uso de XML se ha vuelto más frecuente y hoy su enfoque es principalmente alrededor del intercambio de archivos de definición de procesos, usando el estándar XPDL. El otro estándar creado por WfMC en uso es Wf-XML, una extensión del protocolo ASAP. En contraste con BPEL, XPDL no es un lenguaje de programación ejecutable, sino un formato de diseño de procesos para almacenar el diagrama visual y la sintaxis de proceso de los modelos de procesos de negocio, así como otros atributos de producto extendidos.

Referencias

Bibliografía

  • Mike Havey, "Essential Business Process Modeling", 'Chapter Seven. The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)', O'Reilly, August 2005 ISBN 0-596-00843-0
  • "The WfMC glossary", Workflow handbook 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997, ISBN 0-471-96947-8
  • Schulze, W., Bohm, M., and Meyer-Wegener, K., "Services of Workflow Objects and Workflow Meta-Objects in OMG-compliant environments", Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation II, OOPSLA, 1996.
  • Kaya, Atila, masters thesis, "Workflow Interoperability: The WfMC Reference Model and an Implementation", 2001, CiteSeer Reference
  • "Pockets of Flexibility in Workflow Specification", Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2001
  • "A Portable Approach to Exception Handling in Workflow Management Systems", Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2006 International Conference, references WfMC standards in the area of workflow. (DOI 10.1007/11914853_13)
  • "A Workflow Modeling Framework Enhanced with Problem-Solving Knowledge", from "Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems", (DOI 10.1007/11893011_79) reprinted in "Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems" references the WfMC Workflow Reference Model.
  • Gabrielle D'Annunzio Cavalcanti, Pedro Porfírio Muniz Farias, "Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use", chapter: 'Interoperability of Workflow Engines Based on Agents Using Semantics', discusses the relevance of WfMC standards
  • Christian Hastedt-Marckwardt, "Ein Beitrag der IT zur Geschäftsprozeß-Orientierung & -Optimierung - Grundlagen, Standards und Trends", (DOI 10.1007/s002870050129) Informatik-Spektrum, Volume 22, Number 2 / April, 1999, discusses both WfMC standards as well as Simple Workflow Access Protocol.
  • Bill Karakostas, Dimitris Panagiotakis, George Fakas, "Workflow Requirements Modelling Using XML", Requirements Engineering, Issue: Volume 7, Number 3 / September, 2002 discusses XML models that follows the Workflow Management Coalition interoperability standards.
  • Christian Zirpins, Giacomo Piccinelli, "Evolution of Service Processes by Rule Based Transformation" DOI 10.1007/1-4020-8155-3_16 "IFIP International Federation for Information Processing" Volume 146/2004 "Building the E-Service Society"...builds on the standard workflow meta-model proposed by the WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition). The change logic is expressed by transformation rules...
  • Wil M.P. van der Aalst, "Business Process Management Demystified: A Tutorial on Models, Systems and Standards for Workflow Management", Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3098/2004.
  • Jianxun Liu, Shensheng Zhang, Jinming Hu, "A case study of an inter-enterprise workflow-supported supply chain management system", Information and Management, Volume 42, Issue 3 (March 2005), Pages: 441 - 454, ISSN 0378-7206

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