Author:
Karim Baïna
Affiliation:
ENSIAS, Université Mohammed V - Souissi, Morocco
Keyword(s):
Workflow management systems, Workflow management systems evaluation, Workflow management systems comparison criteria.
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Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
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Databases and Information Systems Integration
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Software Measurement
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Strategic Decision Support Systems
Abstract:
The task of selecting a workflow engine becomes more and more complex and risky. For this reason, organizations require a broad, and a clear vision of which workflow engines are, and will continue to be, suitable for changing requirements. This paper presents a workflow engines comparison model to analyze, compare, and select business process management modeling and enactment engines (Workflow Engines or WFEs) according to user specific requirements. After the description of the underlying model itself, we present the implementation of this workflow engines comparison model through our multi-criteria workflow engines comparison and selection prototype WFESelector. The later proposes two scenarios for selecting relevant WFE: either to express dynamically
multi-criteria query upon a WFE evaluation database, or to browse the whole WFE classification through a reporting aggregation based dashboard. WFESelector is subsequently experimented to assess criteria satisfaction on a very large
number of open source workflow engines (as numerous as 35).
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