• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.310-319
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• 2003

Workflow is defined as the automation of a business process, and consists of interrelated workflow tasks. Because many modem business processes nay involve activities that are geographically distributed between different departments or organizations, workflow inherently has the characteristics of distribution. In distributed workflow systems, each workflow task performs its assigned role by utilizing information resources placed at some hosts, and then transmits workflow execution control to the next tasks in a workflow definition. Hence, it is very important to appropriately allocate workflow tasks to hosts for high performance workflow processing. In this paper, we propose a multilevel workflow graph partitioning scheme for efficient placement of workflow tasks. This method can improve the performance of workflow processing by minimizing the remote communication costs occurred during workflow execution.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2000

In this study, we investigate several problems of previous workflow system, and suggest an enhanced process management system that involves a substantial portion of workflow system. To overcome the differences in systems, we selected a web as platform to develop a process management system, and we investigate merit and capability of web-based process management system. We improved WFMS's ability to define various process through many behavior rules and multiple layered process structure. We suggest X-WPM system for the process management system with XML technology.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.172-182
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• 2008

Application Contents of based on a workflow process unit in grid system is a practical work to solve the problem. To construct cooperation environment is very important because the contents are deployed and executed. And the most of cooperation is executed by workflow. Globus toolkit is the middleware for cooperation process in grid environment. However the middleware only provides basic services for constructing grid, not workflow that can provides cooperation, job scheduling, application contents management. Also Globus toolkit is suitable for huge gird community but small size pc based grid community. Therefore, this paper proposes the efficient application contents deployment system for small sizes cooperation. This system supports efficient cooperation environment with Application contents deployment and resource management provided in grid community. Also it presents information and association relation among application contents with association dictionary among application contents based on workflow process unit, and utilizes this as information for application contents deployment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.55-63
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• 2003

Workflow Management System (WFMS) is a software system to support an efficient execution, control and management of complex business processes. Since traditional commercial systems mainly focus on automating processes, they don't have methods for enhancing the task performer's efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new method of executing business processes more efficiently in that a whole process is scheduled considering the degree of the participants' workload. The method allows managing the largest constraints among constituent resources of the process. We utilize DBR scheduling techniques to develop the method. We first consider the differences between workflow process models and DBR application models, and then develop the modified drum, buffer and rope. This leads us to develop WF-DBR (WorkFlow-DBR) that can control the proper size of the task performers' work list and arrival rate of process instances. Use of WF-DBR improves the efficiency of the whole process as well as the participants' working condition. We then carry out a set of simulation experiments and compare the effectiveness of our approach with that of scheduling techniques used in existing systems.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.187-201
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a multi-layered architecture of workflow management systems based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). The system aims to support product development processes in distributed environment. Many companies have started to adopt workflow management systems to manage and support their business processes. However, there are many problems in direct application of those systems to product development environments. These mainly resulted from the dynamic features of product development processes. It is strongly required to support dynamic processes as well as static and procedural ones in an integrated and consistent manner. To meet these requirements, a basic workflow management system has been developed as the core component of the integrated architecture. This performs the basic functions of workflow management system. Second, a dynamic workflow management system based on a bidding mechanism has been developed to manage processes that cannot be easily defined or are likely to be modified, Finally, an SGML workflow management system, which is the third layer in the architecture, has been developed to manage documents processing workflows by integration SGML documents contents and process information into the structured SGML document.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.53-64
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• 2004

Today's enterprises take processes beyond their own organizational boundaries in order to electronically trade goods and services with partners under the concept of B2B e-commerce. In this environment, inter-organizational business processes are required and should be well defined not only in public processes between partners but in private processes within individual partners. For this purpose, we propose the method to represent inter-organizational business processes. First of all, a feasible modeling method for the inter-organizational workflow for B2B e-commerce is developed. This method is proposed based on BPSS in ebXML so that the binary and multiparty collaborations share a common process. In this method, message flows and control flows are separated in order to facilitate the design procedure of the inter-organizational workflow process. Second, a well-structured process modeling algorithm to design a well-structured inter-organizational workflow process is proposed. In the algorithm, a process is transformed to a Petri-net-based process model. This algorithm employs well-behaved modeling blocks, well-behaved control structures, and business transactions to develop well-structured process models by a top-down design.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.415-426
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• 2006

Many technical and nontechnical issues hinder enterprise wide workflow management. The most significant technical issue is the inability to deal with the heterogeneity among users, workflow types, and WFMSs. Not all users demand the same workflow functionality, so user interfaces of different levels of sophistication are required. Because workflow types cannot always be fully predefined, they often need to be adjusted or extended during execution. Unlike relational database management systems, however, each WFMS often has differing workflow metamodels. This leads to incompatibility between WFMSs, making integration into an environment comprising many heterogeneous WFMSs a troublesome and sometimes impossible task. Current Workflow system consists mainly of Database system. It contains some problems like that the integration relationship among system processes cant be expressed properly. This research has been focused on two phases that should be considered in the Workflow system. First of all, the first phase is the analysis phase; one of its role is to figure out independent execution task unit(Workflow component). The second phase is design phase that provides with the framework to execute these task units actively. The Workflow component extraction method in the analysis phase uses a analysis method called C-C Net and, in the design phase, the architecture that makes the these Workflow component executed actively is provided. Through this research, each process is divided into a task unit and more effective Workflow system could be formed by executing these units actively. Current system layer calls task units, on the other hand, the Workflow system this research implemented provides with the architecture that places a layer between them that controls task units actively.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.191-203
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• 2010

Recently applications of RFID technologies in production and logistics systems are expanding. In this research, we deal with workflow modeling methods for handling RFID-tagged parts. We verified that the material flow processes in a RFID system can be designed and assessed using workflow modeling notations, and suggested available process patterns using BPMN. In addition, we proposed an algorithm to monitor the exact status of flows and determine whether some of the events are ghost reads or not by referring predefined workflow definitions. The major contribution of this research is that it has demonstrated how well-established workflow modeling methods can be applied to RFID-based systems.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.133-142
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• 2008

This paper conceives and implements an activity analysis method as a tool to be used for workflow visual verification and mining. One of the recent issues in the workflow and business process literature is to refine and to improve the deployed workflows and business processes. The activity analysis method proposed in this paper provides a way to fine a set of activities being directly affected by the specific activity that a user tries to change its properties. I would strongly believe that the method can be a useful solution for the dynamic changes and visual verifications problems of workflow models as well as the workflow process mining problems. Finally, to prove the possibility of the proposed method and its applicability, we apply to a workflow model of the electronic approval system run by a real corporation.

• 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.