DECLARE: Full Support for Loosely-Structured Processes

Maja Pesic, Helen Schonenberg, Wil M.P. van der Aalst
2007 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2007)  
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
more » ... er 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.
doi:10.1109/edoc.2007.14 dblp:conf/edoc/PesicSA07 fatcat:hvoyxmdygvcaff5jgzy3f5edxm