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Electronicadministrative processes are present in most organizations, whether public or private. Such processes can be modeled by state diagrams and stored in database systems, making their handling easier. The digitizing of processes associated to computerized management of their flows result in more efficiency, accuracy, robustness and security in their handling. In this paper we present an approach to improve the management of governmental administrative processes by generating their flows. To illustrate the approach, we proved the concept through the implementation of the iProcess. The main contributions of the present work are the support to creation of process flows in a flexible manner, as well as the execution of these flows, besides allowing the exploration the features of a multimedia indexing system, and the possibility of making spatiotemporal queries of the elements attached to the process.
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Lacerda, Y.A., de Figueirêdo, H.F., Feitosa, R.G.F., Falcão, A.G.R., de Souza Baptista, C. (2011). Visual Modeling of Workflow with Support to Multimedia and Spatiotemporal Indexing. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22961-9_15
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