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Policy-based management and process-based management are two main management paradigms that are widely used in information management systems. The foundation of traditional WfMS is process-based management. In this paper we present a process meta model to support policy based management in WfMS. With the new meta model the system has better flexibility in workflow design time and higher adaptability at run-time. It can also keep the business rules consistent across the whole enterprise and provide a uniform method to deal with business rules, resources and security in workflow system.
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Ouyang, S., Xu, H. (2007). A Process Meta Model to Support Policy Based Management in Workflow System. In: Shi, Y., van Albada, G.D., Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2007. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72588-6_48
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