• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.145-158
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• 2003

Workflow is the automation of a business process, in whole or part, during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. The software selection problem is made difficult by the multiplicity of competing products and the lack of expertise and experience of users in the methods of software evaluation. Although the selection process for workflow is similar to that proposed for the acquisition of any software packages, differences arise in their evaluation criteria and choice methods. In this paper, we suggest the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) method for selecting workflow software. The AHP is an intuitively easy method for formulating and analyzing decisions. It was developed to solve a specific class of problems that involves prioritization of potential alternate solutions. We showed how to evaluate 9 commercial workflow products by deciding the relative importance of the main criteria in the AHP model. We utilized the evaluation data for criteria ready suggested by specialist groups. Our methodology will be helpful to those who are going to adopt a best workflow product in their organizations. Although the criteria and their evaluation scores regarding workflow products are suggested, it is not easy to apply them to a real case and get solutions without a model.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2000

The design and development of a Web-based Workflow Management System (WfMS) is described in this paper. WfMSs are employed by many organizations to manage their business processes efficiently. The goal of this research is to provide an effective management of design processes in a distributed and heterogeneous environment-an environment in which workflow participants are geographically dispersed and use different computing platforms. We identify the requirements of WfMSs for the distributed and heterogeneous environment. We present an approach to applying the Web technology to was. The developed system is composed of three main modules: Worflow Engine, Web-based clients, and Process Designer. The workflow engine is implemented in pure Java for portability to heterogeneous platforms. furthermore, the client interfaces are all programmed using applets, and thus they can be readily accessed through the Internet/intranet. The Process Designer provides a build-time function of generating process specifications. Some important functions of the developed system are explained in this paper. A prototype system has been developed and applied to design processes. The system allows effective cooperation among designers who may be geographically separated.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2007

Integration of engineering information through the IT (Information Technology) is very important key during the collaboration design process. How can we realize the data efficiently in real-time at the early design stage? How can we manage to integrate the separate information made by each designer or department effectively in real time? IT global trend is the unique way of handling these complicated problems from the information inundation. This paper suggests the design process management system deduced from the analytical results considering BPM (Business Process Management) solution workflow. Workflow based design process management system can help user share and integrate the needed information at the right time through Internet. It is found that the proposed tool works well for a beam design case, and this framework can be thus further expanded for an engineering design environment smoothly.

• 산업공학
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• 제16권spc호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2003

In e-business environment, business processes inevitably get more entangled and entail collaboration between distributed and heterogeneous platforms that are not easy to manage. Therefore, systematic and automated management of business process execution has drawn a great concern among companies that necessitate collaborative business processes. The concept of workflow inheritance enables abstraction, polymorphism and reusability of processes, and therefore contributes to extending and executing the processes effectively. We analyze various types of interoperation between business processes, and identify 6 primitive interoperability patterns. We propose a method for extensible collaborative process composition using workflow inheritance and provide collaborative workflow between business processes using web services.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2019

Process mining is state-of-the-art technology in the workflow field. Recently, process mining becomes more important because of the fact that it shows the status of the actual behavior of the workflow model. However, as the process mining get focused and developed, the material of the process mining - workflow event log - also grows fast. Thus, the process mining algorithms cannot operate with some data because it is too large. To solve this problem, there should be a lightweight process mining algorithm, or the event log must be divided and processed partly. In this paper, we suggest a set of operations that control and edit XES based event logs for process mining. They are designed based on relational algebra, which is used in database management systems. We designed three operations for tailoring XES event logs. Select operation is an operation that gets specific attributes and excludes others. Thus, the output file has the same structure and contents of the original file, but each element has only the attributes user selected. Union operation makes two input XES files into one XES file. Two input files must be from the same process. As a result, the contents of the two files are integrated into one file. The final operation is a slice. It divides anXES file into several files by the number of traces. We will show the design methods and details below.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3216-3230
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• 2015

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of "workflow-supported organizational social networks." These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organization. We can discover those organizational social networks, and visualize its analysis results as organizational knowledge. In this paper, we are particularly interested in how to visualize the degrees of closeness centralities among workflow-performers by proposing a graphical representation schema based on the Graph Markup Language, which is named to ccWSSN-GraphML. Additionally, we expatiate on the functional expansion of the closeness centralization formulas so as for the visualization framework to handle a group of workflow procedures (or a workflow package) with organizational workflow-performers.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.145-157
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 엔터프라이즈 워크플로우의 자원할당 및 성능개선을 위한 워크플로우 모델 (또는 비즈니스 프로세스 모델) 분석 도구의 설계 및 구현에 관하여 기술한다. 즉, 엔터프라이즈 워크플로우 모델의 분석기법은 크게 정적인 분석기법과 동적인 분석기법으로 나눠지는데, 본 논문에서 제안하는 분석기법은 정적인 분석기법에 해당하며, 국제표준화기구 WfMC의 표준 참조모델 중 인터페이스-1의 프로세스 정의 언어인 XPDL (XML Process Definition Language)을 기반으로 하는 워크플로우 모델의 구조적 패턴분석과 정의된 자원할당계획의 효율성분석을 지원하는 분석도구를 설계 및 구현한다. 결과적으로, 본 연구에서 제시한 분석도구는 워크플로우 모델을 워크플로우 관리시스템에서 실행하기 이전인 정의시점에서 해당 모델에 대한 유효성 분석을 가능하게 함으로써 엔터프라이즈 자원 할당 계획에 활용할 수 있을 뿐 만 아니라 모델의 정확성, 신뢰성, 효율성을 높이는데 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국CDE학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2002

Collaborative product commerce(CPC) involves many people working together with heterogeneous and distributed software applications. For such an environment, Workflow Management System(WFMS) can be useful for coordination of people, software agents and processes. It provides diverse services including automatic work muting, project management continuous process improvement and application integration. However, there are some limitations to apply WFMS to CPC environment due to inflexibility and lack of design support facilities. This paper identifies the problems and addresses possible approaches to overcome the difficulties.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.159-175
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• 2003

During the early stage of radioactive disposal programs, important issues related with quality assurance of data sets, methodologies, R&D procedures are recognized as important ones. This paper focused on the development of web-based workflow standards for the QA procedures of the radioactive waste disposal programs. The flow of process was analyzed based on workflow concepts proposed by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). QA system is based on the principles of T2R3. T2R3 Workflow was used to standardize and restructure the business and/or work process in the industry or organization. The WfMC has identified five functional interfaces to a workflow service as part of its standardization program. They are composed of process definition interface, worklist handler, application program interface, interface between workflows, and system management. The task flow and QA program were defined based on the workflow ideas. QA procedures for the R&D results of radiation disoposal were analyzed following the reference model of workflow. In addition, six program run list were created and implemented. The creation, revision, and approval of the test data were designed to be inplemented on the web environment. Through this system, R&D procedures such as planning, research, documentation, internal review and future independent peer review processes could be well organized and stored more systematically on the database and knowledge base. This will encourage the usage and data sharing between interested parties through it's clear and transparent workflow standards.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.73-86
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 워크플로우 소셜네트워크 인텔리전스의 발견 알고리즘을 제안한다. 즉, 워크플로우 인텔리전스 (또는 비즈니스 프로세스 인텔리전스) 기술은 워크플로우 모델들과 그의 실행이력으로부터 일련의 인텔리전스를 발견, 분석, 모니터링 및 제어, 그리고 예측하는 세부기법들로 구성되는데, 본 논문에서는 워크플로우 모델과 그의 실행을 기반으로 형성되는 수행자들간의 협업 인텔리전스를 "워크플로우 소셜네크워크 인텔리전스"라고 정의하고, 그의 발견기법인 정보제어넷(ICN, Information Control Net)기반 워크플로우 소셜네트워크 인텔리전스 발견 알고리즘을 제안한다. 특히, 제안한 알고리즘의 적용 사례를 통해 특정 워크플로우 모델로부터 해당 워크플로우 소셜네트워크 인텔리전스를 성공적으로 생성할 수 있음을 증명하므로서 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘의 정확성 및 적합성을 검증한다.