• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2006년도 추계공동학술대회
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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.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.310-319
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• 2003

워크플로우는 자동화 및 전산화된 업무 프로세스로 정의되며, 서로 관련성을 가지는 여러 개의 워크플로우 작업들로 구성된다. 오늘날 대부분의 업무 프로세스들은 지리적으로 떨어져 있는 서로 다른 부서 및 회사에서 수행되는 작업들을 포함하기 때문에 워크플로우는 본질적으로 분산성을 가진다. 분산 워크플로우 시스템에서 각 워크플로우 작업은 원격 호스트에 있는 공유 자원들을 활용하여 주어진 역할을 수행하고, 워크플로우 정의에 따라 다음 작업들을 수행하기 위해 제어를 전달한다. 따라서 고성능을 요구하는 워크플로우 환경을 지원하기 위해서는 워크플로우 작업들을 적절한 호스트에 배치해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 워크플로우 작업 배치를 위한 다단계 워크플로우 그래프 분할 기법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 워크플로우의 수행 과정에서 발생하는 원격 통신 비용을 최소화하여 워크플로우의 처리 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2005년도 춘계공동학술대회 발표논문
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• pp.112-118
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• 2005

Workflow is a collection of tasks organized to accomplish some business processes. It also defines the order of task invocation or conditions under which task must be invoked, task synchronization, and information flow. And activity based costing(ABC) provides accurate cost information for decision making. In ABC systems, costs must be separable into cost pools each of which corresponding to a single cost driver. These two systems are closely related to each other. But recent research deals with workflows and ABC systems separately. Thus, this research proposes an extended workflow model which is expressed cost information using activity based costing.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

Background: Workflow interruptions during surgery may cause a threat to patient's safety. Workflow interruptions were tested to predict failure in action regulation that in turn predicts near-accidents in surgery and related health care. Methods: One-hundred-and-thirty-three theater nurses and physicians from eight Swiss hospitals participated in a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. The study participation rate was 43%. Results: Structural equation modeling confirmed an indirect path from workflow interruptions through cognitive failure in action regulation on near-accidents (p < 0.05). The indirect path was stronger for workflow interruptions by malfunctions and task organizational blockages compared with workflow interruptions that were caused by persons. The indirect path remained meaningful when individual differences in conscientiousness and compliance with safety regulations were controlled. Conclusion: Task interruptions caused by malfunction and organizational constraints are likely to trigger errors in surgery. Work redesign is recommended to reduce workflow interruptions by malfunction and regulatory constraints.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TE
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.431-436
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 워크플로우 환경에서 정적 및 동적 의무 분리 요구 사항의 명세에 대한 과업 역할 기반 접근제어 모델과 상충하는 엔티티 관리 패러다임의 통합을 통하여 기업 환경에서 접근제어 시행을 위한 개선된 접근제어 모델을 구현한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 확장된 과업 역할기반 접근제어 모델은 워크플로우 지향 과업에 대하여 상충하는 엔티티들을 다룰 수 있고 기업의 특성에 따라서 기업 세션의 분류를 통하여 기업 환경에서 과업에 정교한 의무 분리 정책을 지원할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3126-3145
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• 2014

Cloud computing is a computing paradigm in which users can rent computing resources from service providers according to their requirements. A spot instance in cloud computing helps a user to obtain resources at a lower cost. However, a crucial weakness of spot instances is that the resources can be unreliable anytime due to the fluctuation of instance prices, resulting in increasing the failure time of users' job. In this paper, we propose a Genetic Algorithm (GA)-based workflow scheduling scheme that can find the optimal task size of each instance in a spot instance-based cloud computing environment without increasing users' budgets. Our scheme reduces total task execution time even if an out-of-bid situation occurs in an instance. The simulation results, based on a before-and-after GA comparison, reveal that our scheme achieves performance improvements in terms of reducing the task execution time on average by 7.06%. Additionally, the cost in our scheme is similar to that when GA is not applied. Therefore, our scheme can achieve better performance than the existing scheme, by optimizing the task size allocated to each available instance throughout the evolutionary process of GA.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 가중치 및 방향성 워크플로우 소셜네트워크의 사이중심도 분석방법과 그에 따른 알고리듬을 제안한다. 기존의 워크플로우 소셜네트워크는 워크플로우 모델을 구성하는 단위업무를 처리하는 과정에서 수행자들간의 업무전달관계 유무를 이진 소셜네트워크 모델로 표현한 것이다. 그러나, 워크플로우 기반 조직을 구성하는 수행자들간의 업무전달관계를 효과적으로 분석하기 위해서는 기존의 수행자들간의 관계유무를 기본으로 하는 이진 소셜네트워크 정보 뿐 만 아니라 수행자들간의 정량적 업무전달관계와 그 업무전달관계의 방향성 또한 효과적인 분석결과를 획득하는데 있어서 매우 중요한 요인이다. 결과적으로, 본 논문에서는 수행자 그룹의 효과적인 업무전달관계 분석을 수행하기 위하여 정량적 업무전달관계 수준과 그의 방향성을 고려한 가중치 및 방향성 워크플로우 소셜네트워크 개념과 수행자 그룹의 사이중심도 분석방법 및 알고리듬을 제안한다. 특히, 제안한 분석방법을 검증하기 위하여 기존의 이진 워크플로우 소셜네트워크에 대한 사이중심도 분석방법과 본 논문에서 제안한 가중치 및 방향성 워크플로우 소셜네트워크에 대한 사이중심도 분석방법을 특정 워크플로우 모델에 적용하여 그 분석결과를 비교한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.385-394
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 그리드 환경에서 워크플로우 형태의 작업을 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 워크플로우 시스템을 소개하고자 한다. 이 시스템에서는 워크플로우를 메타서비스 개념으로 구성하여 재사용성을 높였고, 사용자는 서비스 호출만으로 다양한 형태의 서비스를 실행할 수 있다. 또한 사용자는 GUI 형태의 편집기를 이용하여 워크플로우를 자성하거나 편집하는데 편리성을 제공받을 수 있다. 그리고 워크플로우의 재사용성과 확장성을 높이기 위하여 워크플로우 모델을 서비스, 플로우, 태스크와 같이 3개의 계층으로 분할하여 구성하였다. 이로써 본 논문에서 제안하는 미들웨어는 사용자 편리성과 함께 그리드 자원을 최대한 효율적으로 이용하도록 제공해준다.

• 경영과학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.17-31
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• 2003

A workflow management system is a software system to support accurate execution, control and management of business processes. It has been known that the system automatically executes complex processes and effectively manages them to improve the productivities. However though existing systems assure the automatic execution of an individual process, there is a room for enhancement from the view of efficient execution of all the processes. In this paper, we propose a method of executing business processes efficiently by introducing the PERT/CPM techniques in the workflow management systems. We first consider the differences between workflow process models and PERT/CPM models, and then develop a method of calculating the critical path and slack time in workflow processes. This leads us to develop a dispatching rule that can guide task performers to prioritize their tasks to increase the efficiency of ail the processes. We have carried out a set of simulation experiments and analyzed the results to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.149-164
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• 2001

In this paper, an adaptive workflow management system, called K-WFMS, is proposed. The K-WFMS integrates database system and knowledge-based system to automate business processes that are executed with complex and various business rules such as task scheduling, role resolution, and exception handling rules. The K-WFMS is adaptable in the sense that it allows its users to change workflow schema in the course of workflow execution as well as it provides rule-based modeling constructs to handle predictable exceptions during workflow modeling. The overall architecture and implementation of K-WFMS are explained, and the change propagation mechanism to maintain validity of workflow model is suggested.