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newYAWL: Towards Workflow 2.0

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Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II

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The field of workflow technology has burgeoned in recent years providing a variety of means of automating business processes. It is a great source of opportunity for organisations seeking to streamline and optimise their operations. Despite these advantages however, the current generation of workflow technologies are subject to a variety of criticisms, in terms of their restricted view of what comprises a business process, their imprecise definition and their general inflexibility. As a remedy to these potential difficulties, in this paper we propose a series of development goals for the next generation of workflow technology. We also present newYAWL, a formally defined, multi-perspective reference language for workflow systems.

This research was conducted in the context of the Patterns for Process-Aware Information Systems (P4PAIS) project which is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Nick Russell

  2. Queensland University of Technology, PO Box 2434, QLD, 4001, Australia

    Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede

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  1. Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-parken, Aabogade 34, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Kurt Jensen

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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Russell, N., ter Hofstede, A.H.M. (2009). newYAWL: Towards Workflow 2.0. In: Jensen, K., van der Aalst, W.M.P. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00899-3_5

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