TY - GEN
T1 - EROICA
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2002)
AU - Kumar, Akhil
AU - Zhao, J. Leon
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Conventional workflow management systems have been criticized for being too rigid in dealing with changes in organizational policies, in particular for the lack of flexible mechanisms for handling complex role resolution. In this paper we describe a rule-based approach (EROICA) for managing organizational policies in workflow systems. Our approach extends the well-known ECA (event-condition-action) approach used in database systems by elevating roles, objects and time intervals to first class citizens, hence the term EROICA (event-role-object-interval-condition-action). In this paper, we focus on the development of a flexible role resolution mechanism that operates under various business constraints specified with EROICA rules. We further discuss the issues of architecture and implementation and demonstrate that the EROICA framework is promising in making next generation of workflow systems more powerful and flexible. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002
AB - Conventional workflow management systems have been criticized for being too rigid in dealing with changes in organizational policies, in particular for the lack of flexible mechanisms for handling complex role resolution. In this paper we describe a rule-based approach (EROICA) for managing organizational policies in workflow systems. Our approach extends the well-known ECA (event-condition-action) approach used in database systems by elevating roles, objects and time intervals to first class citizens, hence the term EROICA (event-role-object-interval-condition-action). In this paper, we focus on the development of a flexible role resolution mechanism that operates under various business constraints specified with EROICA rules. We further discuss the issues of architecture and implementation and demonstrate that the EROICA framework is promising in making next generation of workflow systems more powerful and flexible. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45703-8_19
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45703-8_19
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783540440451
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 201
EP - 212
BT - Advances in Web-Age Information Management
A2 - Meng, Xiaofeng
A2 - Su, Jianwen
A2 - Wang, Yujun
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
Y2 - 11 August 2002 through 13 August 2002
ER -