Authors:
Carlos R. Lopes
and
Jony T. Melo
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Computação – Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil
Keyword(s):
Workflow, Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Planning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business and Social Applications
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Engineering
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Workflow Management and Databases
;
Workflow Management Systems
Abstract:
Advances in Information Technology have created opportunities for business enterprises to redesign their information and process management systems. The redesigned systems will likely employ some form of workflow management system. This is not surprising since businesses in any segment, can benefit from workflow management. Workflow management systems exactly enact business processes described in a process description language. Despite the advertising claims of many companies, current workflow systems require a software developer to construct the workflows using a process description language. In order to make this task easier, in this paper we describe an algorithm for automatic generation of workflow that uses Artificial Planning Techniques. Moreover, we present a case of study based on the implementation developed.