Database Support for Workflow Management

One: Introduction To The WIDE Project.- 1 Workflow Management and Database Technology.- 2 The WIDE Approach to Workflow Management.- Two: The WIDE Workflow Model.- 3 Conceptual Workflow Model.- 4 Workflow Design Methodology.- Three: The WIDE Workflow System.- 5 Data Support.- 6 Transaction Support.- 7 Active Rule Support.- 8 Workflow Support.- Four: WIDE Applications.- 9 Medical Insurance Application.- 10 Short-Stay Surgery.- Concluding Remarks.- APPENDICES.- A Wide Wpdl.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 The WPDL grammar: basic structures.- A.2.1 Grammar and language constructs.- A.3 WIDE WPDL: process and entities definitions.- A.3.1 Workflow entities.- A.3.2 Transition definition.- A.2.3 Chimera exceptions definition.- B Details Global Travel International.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Process model definition.- B.3 Information model definition.- C Details Medical Insurance Application.- C.1 Introduction.- C.2 Information model definition.- C.3 Workflow definition.- D Details Short-Stay Surgery Application.- D.1 Introduction.- D.2 Triggers.- D.3 Business transactions.- D.4 Information models.- D.5 Workflow definition.- E WIDE Publications.- E.1 Conference papers.- E.2 Journal papers.- E.3 Magazine papers.- E.4 Technical reports.- E.5 WIDE newsletters.

Barbara Pernici is full professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests include cooperative information systems, workflow management systems, information systems modeling and design, mobile information systems, temporal databases, applications of database technology.