• IE interfaces
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.190-199
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• 2004

Recently, many enterprises are introducing a workflow management system for the successful implementation of BPR(Business Process Reengineering). Proposed in this study is the workflow management system which has a light-weight component structure and an XPDL(XML Process Definition Language) file interpretation facility. The XPDL is the standard process definition exchange format developed by WfMC(Workflow Management Coalition). The major causes of inefficiency at current implementations of workflow management systems are the centralized workflow engine structure and the use of proprietary workflow definition format among most solutions. The proposed light-weight component structure in this study is the intermediate structure that takes the strength of both centralized and distributed workflow engines. And a prototype workflow system which uses an XPDL process definition file as input is developed through the thorough analysis of functional requirements.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.91-97
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• 2007

According to increasing necessaries of workflow systems, it will be useful to most Enterprises. However existing workflow systems are shared only inside of systems that use a same process definition. It is difficult to share a process definition with another enterprise using different platforms. In this paper, we used Web Service for sharing process definition. Web Service have advantage that can linked between different platforms. Therefore we developed workflow Process definition by using Web Service. Using Web Service, we can be share workflow process definition between enterprises using different platform.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1702-1721
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• 2019

A workflow process (or business process) management system helps to define, execute, monitor and manage workflow models deployed on a workflow-supported enterprise, and the system is compartmentalized into a modeling subsystem and an enacting subsystem, in general. The modeling subsystem's functionality is to discover and analyze workflow models via a theoretical modeling methodology like ICN, to graphically define them via a graphical representation notation like BPMN, and to systematically deploy those graphically defined models onto the enacting subsystem by transforming into their textual models represented by a standardized workflow process definition language like XPDL. Before deploying those defined workflow models, it is very important to inspect its syntactical correctness as well as its structural properness to minimize the loss of effectiveness and the depreciation of efficiency in managing the corresponding workflow models. In this paper, we are particularly interested in verifying very large-scale and massively parallel workflow models, and so we need a sophisticated analyzer to automatically analyze those specialized and complex styles of workflow models. One of the sophisticated analyzers devised in this paper is able to analyze not only the structural complexity but also the data-sequence complexity, especially. The structural complexity is based upon combinational usages of those control-structure constructs such as subprocesses, exclusive-OR, parallel-AND and iterative-LOOP primitives with preserving matched pairing and proper nesting properties, whereas the data-sequence complexity is based upon combinational usages of those relevant data repositories such as data definition sequences and data use sequences. Through the devised and implemented analyzer in this paper, we are able eventually to achieve the systematic verifications of the syntactical correctness as well as the effective validation of the structural properness on those complicate and large-scale styles of workflow models. As an experimental study, we apply the implemented analyzer to an exemplary large-scale and massively parallel workflow process model, the Large Bank Transaction Workflow Process Model, and show the structural complexity analysis results via a series of operational screens captured from the implemented analyzer.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.486-501
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• 2005

XPDL is a XML-based language for process definition exchange that is proposed by WfMC. This paper propose a model which model XPDL document structure (Schema) using UML in order to define and to exchange workflow process, and make business flow understanding ease for inter-business cooperation. So, we define mapping rules in which map XPDL documents into UML class diagram and UML activity diagram. By these mapping rules, elements composing XPDL process meta-model are mapped into UML class diagram, and process activities are mapped into UML activity diagram. Also, we apply proposed mapping technique to model a workflow of (')Credit card state check system.(')

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.904-914
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• 1998

BPR(Business Process Reengineering), a radical improvement approach of business process, has been paying attention, and work-flow management and automation has been concentrated on progress velocity of business process and productivity of engineers. In software engineering, software process engineering which focus to process begin to be watched, and for the purpose of software productivity and quality progress and reduction of development term, study on SPR(Software Process Reengineering) is being progressed. In this paper, made workflow analysis and design method for construction of work-flow management system of software process to stand firm process reengineering methodology. In other words, we studied modeling process methods for SPR process, and software process structure and workflow analysis method which construct software process workflow model and specification definition method of workflow software.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.131-141
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• 2003

For workflow systems using XML documents for saving workflow process definition and especially for XML-based worflow systems, a repository needed to provide control for XML documents. The repository allows uniform access to shared data and facilitates integration among tools in workfolw systems. An XML repository gives the best solution to maintain, exchane, and modify the workflow process definition meta data, which is in the form of XML documents . The XML repository, where users can lookup the worflow definition objects, serves as the metadata foundation of the workflow system. In this paper, we developed for XML Repository(called REPOWO : REPOsitory for Workflow) that can store, delete, search and transform XML documents. REPOWO is implemented by combining EJB components based on RDBMS. By REPOWO, workfolw process definitions, data type definitions and transition informations can be easily manage.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.145-157
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• 2010

In this paper, we describe the design details and their implementation of a workflow model (or business process model) analysis system to be used for enhancing resource allocation efficiency and operational performance of enterprise workflows. In other word, the analysis works, proposed in this paper, on XPDL-based workflow models aim to verify the static aspects of the workflow models. Also, the system implemented in the paper is able to not only analyze structural patterns and resource allocation plans' efficiency of enterprise workflows modeled by the XPDL process definition language developed by the international standardization organization, WfMC, but also provide various forms of analytical reports. Conclusively, we strongly believe that the workflow analysis system developed in the paper enables workflow modelers to not only analyze and scrutinize structural patterns of their workflow models but also estimate their process resources assigning and planning measurements in order to improve accuracy, reliability and efficiency of enterprise workflows.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.77-86
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• 2004

In recent, workflow technology has been spotlighted in the literature, according for e-business processes and their automations to be taken important and essential parts into account in the enterprise information processing environment, because the workflow technology ought to be an impeccable solution for automating the e-business processes. When we analyze and model e-business processes in an enterprise, it is very important to verify and validate the e-business processes before they are deployed on the real business environment. Especially, it should be very worthy for the verification and validation work to be done by a kind of graphical visualization approaches. This paper propose a business process enactment animator implemented by Java Technologies. And it supports WPDL(Workflow Process Definition Language) as well as XPDL(XML-Based Process Definition Language), both of which are the standard specification language by WfMC that is the international standardization organization for Workflow Technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.1085-1092
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• 2003

Proposed in this paper is a standard-compliant business process modeling tool which is based on the UML(Unified Modeling Language) activity diagram and produces an XPDL(XML Process Definition Language) file as an output. The XPDL is a standard process definition exchange format by WfMC(Workflow Management Coalition). To develop an UML/XPDL-based modeling tool, the mapping of modeling elements between activity diagram and XPDL format is conducted after the detailed analysis of each modeling specification. As a result of this mapping, it is revealed that modeling elements of each activity diagram and XPDL must be expanded. So new modeling elements are identified and added to each specification. Based on this mapping, the prototype system is developed, and the usefulness of the developed system is shown through the case study.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.16-25
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• 2003

Modeller is defined as the office work procedures(business processes), and that is systemically based upon the real-time collaborative operations by a set of actors, which is called group. This paper describes the design of the ICN editor that is operable under the real-time collaborative computing environment. We use the database agent that enables the ICN editor to operate among multiple actors(group) through the event-driven collaboration platform. Consequently, a set of workflow and business processes defined through this editor is not only stored onto database but also transformed into the format of the workflow process definition language(WPDL) that is a standardized worflow description and specification language proposed by the workflow management coalition(WfMC). This method can improve the performance of workflow processing by minimizing the workflow execution cost occurred during workflow definition.