Designing like a Pro: The automated composition of workflow activities |
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| Affiliation: | 2. Institute of Applied Physics of RAS, 46 Uljanov str., & Nizhny Novgorod State University, 23 Gagarin ave., 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;3. Nizhny Novgorod State University, 23 Gagarin ave.,603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;4. University of Leicester, Leicester LEI 7RH, United Kingdom;1. Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France;2. Purdue University, Department of Computer Science, 305 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2107, USA;1. Université de Lorraine, LORIA UMR 7503, France;2. SiteMinder, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia;3. Télécom SudParis, Samovar UMR 5157, France;1. NICTA, 13 Garden St, Eveleigh, NSW 2015, Australia;2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia;3. Institute of Information and Decision Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China;4. China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, PR China |
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| Abstract: | To design a workflow process that is efficient, meaningful, and understandable it is important to properly consider how to compose the activities it will consist of. In this paper, guidelines are presented for this exact purpose. These focus on the elementary data-processing steps that are at the core of a workflow process. The guidelines help to determine the relative importance of these data-processing steps as well as their relatedness, such that activities can be composed in a fully automated manner. We implemented this approach in freely available software. A thorough evaluation that incorporates real-life workflow designs indicates that the use of these guidelines leads to activities that closely resemble those designed by experienced modelers. As such, the proposed guidelines provide a proper and automated alternative to what is otherwise a complex and time-consuming task. |
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| Keywords: | Business process management Workflows Product Based Workflow Design Activity composition Work design |
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