Abstract
Workflow environments produced by different manufacturers with different implementation characteristics do not share information regarding the control of the execution of process instances, except when developing specific applications. Although some manufacturers have adopted standards such as the Workflow Management Coalition – WFMC, there are still products of which the structure does not support such definitions, making information exchange between workflow engines a problem. A semantics-based approach enhances interaction between computer environments and is essential for an adequate understanding of the environment by the components involved. The present study presents a model for the process of interoperation between workflow engines applicable to the control of the execution of workflow instance processes on the internet. The model is based on agents, web services architecture and semantics for the handling of documents in the Wf-XML grammar standard.
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Cavalcanti, G.D., Muniz Farias, P.P. (2003). Interoperability of Workflow Engines Based on Agents Using Semantics. In: Favela, J., Decouchant, D. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39850-9_25
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