Date
2004
Dewey
Programmation, logiciels, organisation des données
Sujet
workflow management systems; cooperative processes; team coordination; virtual teams; teamwork; cooperative transaction model; workflow coordination; Internet
Journal issue
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Volume
2
Number
3
Publication date
2004
Article pages
232-245
Publisher
Inderscience
Author
Baïna, Karim
Charoy, François
Godart, Claude
Grigori, Daniela
El Hadri, Saad
Skaf, Hala
Akifuji, S.
Sakaguchi, Toshiaki
Seki, Yoko
Yoshioka, Masaichiro
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Workflow management systems are now widely deployed for handling administrative and production applications. In order that the workflow management systems keep supporting a larger range of applications, several research works have been launched to improve the workflow technology. This paper reports on the CORVETTE project, an experiment in developing a cooperative workflow management system by integrating a workflow management system commercialised by Hitachi Ltd. with a cooperation technology proposed by INRIA. A cooperative workflow management system is a system gathering workflow management functionalities and having capabilities to manage cooperative behaviours characteristics of creative application processes (e.g. in codesign and coengineering). In this kind of applications, interactions between activities are characterised by being more subtle than in traditional applications (i.e. non-scheduled, unpredictable, dynamic, etc.). More precisely, CORVETTE was targeted to support coordination workflow processes of a virtual team working over the internet.