• 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.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.569-574
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• 2005

This paper presents the core technology of Construction Business Process Automation to model and automate construction business processes. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Automation (BPA) have been recognized as one of the important aspects in construction business management. However, BPR requires a lot of efforts to identify, document, implement, execute, maintain, and keep track thousands of business processes to deliver a project. Moreover, existing BPA technologies used in existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems do not lend themselves to effective scalability for construction business process management. Application of Workflow and Object Technologies would be quite effective in implementing a scalable enterprise application for construction community. This paper present the technologies and methodologies for automating construction business processes by addressing how: 1) Automated construction management tasks are developed as software components, 2) The process modeling is facilitated by dragging-and dropping task components in a network, 3) Raising business requests and instantiating corresponding process instances are delivered, and 4) Business process instances are executed by using workflow technology based on real-time simulation engine. This paper presents how the construction business process automation is achieved by using equipment reservation and cancellation processes simplified intentionally.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.1-7
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• 2001

Recently, there are two important research trends in the literature the red-time collaborative computing end electronic business process automation. This paper is one of those efforts that would establish an effective business office working and computing environment hough the integration of those two cutting-edge technologies. That is, we try to develop a workflow modeling tool that is semantically based upon the information control net(ICN), which is a typical workflow model for specifying 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, We name it "group ICN editor". This paper describes the design and implementation of the group ICN editor that is operable under the real-time collaborative computing environment. We use the Flexible rJAMM toolkit 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 workflow description and specification language proposed by the workflow management coalition(WfMC).ion(WfMC).

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Traditional workflow time analyses have been performed treating an activity as an independent M/M/1queueing system. Using the general forms of performance measures in the M/M/1 system, various aspects of analyses can be performed. Especially, on the time analysis of an AND structure in a workflow system, the mean system sojourn time can be formalized by applying the performance measures of M/M/1 system. In the real workflow system, the AND structure cannot be described correctly under the assumption of independent M/M/1 systems. To overcome this limitation, this research makes the assumption that the all activities for a task starts simultaneously. In this situation, the theoretical solution can be derived using the performance measures of the M/G/1 system. In addition, the simulation modeling method will be proposed to analyze the AND structure of a real workflow system. Finally, some numerical results from the theoretical solutions and simulation models will be provided for verification. The main performance measures used in this research are mean queueing time and mean sojourn time.

• IE interfaces
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.156-166
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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 Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.113-129
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• 2009

Abstract Corporate activities are composed of numerous working processes and during the working flow, various business processes are being created and completed simultaneously. Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) makes the working process simple, yet creates more complicated work structure and therefore, there is an absolute need of efficient management for business processes. The workflow literature has been looking for efficient and effective ways of rediscovering and mining workflow intelligence and knowledge from their enactment histories and event logs. As part of studies to analyze and improve the process, the concepts of 'Process Mining', 'Process re-discovery', 'BPR (Business Process Reengineering)' have appeared and the studies for practical implementation are proactively being done. However, these studies normally follow the approach throughout data warehousing for log data of process instances. It is very hard for these approaches to reflect user's intention to the rediscovering and mining activities. The process instances designed based on the consideration of analysis can make groupings effectively and when the analysis demand of user changes within the analysis domain can also reduce the cost of analysis. Therefore, the thesis proposes a special type of workflow model, which is called a colored workflow model, that is extended from the ICN (information control net) modeling methodology by reinforcing the concept of colored token. The colored tokens represent the conceptual types of constraints and criteria that can be used to classifying and grouping the workflow intelligence and knowledge extracted from the corresponding workflow models' enactment histories and event logs. Through the runtime information of process instances, it makes possible to analyze proactive and user-oriented process with the goal of deriving business knowledge from the beginning of process definition.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.261-274
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• 1999

Recently, automated business processing systems, so called workflow systems, have been studied. have been studied. even though each task has noticible duration inherently, most of previous models regard it as a simple finite automation where state transitions occur instantly. In this paper, we propose a modeling method for workflow each of whose component task has minimum processing time and due-date. Firstly we provide a priority function to choose the proper alternatives when tasks fail before their due-date. The priority function considers the time-relevant factor and the semantic compatibility level to decide the best alternative. secondly, we identify six different types of execution requirements for tasks with noticible durations. They are serial, parallel, simultaneous start simultaneous termination, interleaved and nested dependency. Note that previous models deal with only serial execution and parallel execution. Lastly, we also propose graph-based methods to detect logical conflicts in time constraint-based workflow specifications.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.3449-3459
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• 2021

With the increasing availability of high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, uncertainty quantification (UQ) and sensitivity analyses (SA) can be efficiently leveraged to optimize design parameters of complex engineering problems using modeling and simulation tools. The workflow involved in such studies heavily relies on HPC resources and hence requires pre-processing and post-processing capabilities of large amounts of data along with remote submission capabilities. The NEAMS Workbench addresses all aspects of the workflows involved in these studies by relying on a user-friendly graphical user interface and a python application program interface. This paper highlights the NEAMS Workbench capabilities by presenting a semiautomated coupling scheme between Dakota and any given package integrated with the NEAMS Workbench, yielding a simplified workflow for users. This new capability is demonstrated by running a SA of a turbulent flow in a pipe using the open-source Nek5000 CFD code. A total of 54 jobs were run on a HPC platform using the remote capabilities of the NEAMS Workbench. The results demonstrate that the semiautomated coupling scheme involving Dakota can be efficiently used for UQ and SA while keeping scripting tasks to a minimum for users. All input and output files used in this work are available in https://code.ornl.gov/neams-workbench/dakota-nek5000-study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.339-342
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• 2006

BPMN(Business Process Modeling Notation)은 BPMI(Business Process Management Initiative)에서 발표한 것으로서 비즈니스 프로세스 모델링을 위한 표준 표기법이다. BPMN은 표준 모델링 표기법 이므로 다른 모델링 표기법을 익히는데 사용되는 시간을 줄이며 IT 및 비즈니스 사용자들 간의 의사소통을 증진시킬 수 있다. 이에 대응하여 WfMC(The Workflow Management Coalition)는 XPDL 매핑작업을 시도하여 BPMN을 XPDL로 표현할 수 있도록 하였고, 그 결과 BPMN에 매핑시킨 XPDL2.0을 발표하였다. 본 논문에서 설계한 모델링 시스템은 표준 표기법인 BPMN을 통하여 모델링을 하고 그 결과를 국제 표준화 워크풀로우 정의 언어인 XPDL2.0으로 제공하는 워크플로우 모델링시스템을 제안하여 다른 워크플로우 시스템들과의 상호 호환성을 제공하는 것이며, 역할 기반의 모델링 방식으로 복잡한 모델링 작업을 단순화 시킬 수 있다. 즉, 워크플로우 모델링 기능에 실시간 그룹웨어 특성들을 통합하여, 한 차원 높은 수준의 모델링 환경제공을 통하여 기존의 워크플로우 시스템들이 지원하지 못 했던 워크플로우 모델링 협동 작업을 실시간으로 지원 할 수 있을 문만 아니라, 요즘과 같이 대형화와 복잡화 그리고 다양화의 특징을 갖는 조직들의 워크플로우 들에 대한 효율적인 분석 및 모델링 환경을 제공하기 위한 워크플로우 모델링 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.139-149
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• 2009

In order to verify that a lot of legal requirements and regulations are correctly translated into software, this paper provides a solution for formal and computable representations of rules and requirements in data protection legislations with a DSML (Domain Specific Modeling Language). All policies are formally specified through Prolog and then integrated with DSML, According to the time of policy verification, this solution has two kinds of policies: static policies, dynamic policies.