With Web/Internet/Intranet accessibility, emerging industry standards, and increased demand for inter-enterprise integration, current workflow management systems must undergo major changes to respond to a changing market, provide flexible, scaleable implementations, support multinational organizations and achieve competitive advantage. Automation of business processes will also enable new management tools. Using object-oriented technology is a viable way to address these demands and certainly will affect the extent to which new opportunities are realized.

Below are a number of specific areas that could benefit from applying object-oriented technology to workflow management:

• Distributed workflow management standards
• Workflow management application requirements
• Limitations of existing workflow management tools and systems
• Enablers for large-scale enterprise workflow management tools
• Application of workflow management systems in healthcare, electronic commerce, manufacturing, etc.
• Conceptual models for workflow management systems
• Workflow management frameworks
• Beyond workflow management
• Visualization and specification of workflow management systems
• Security

The primary expectation of this workshop is to identify critical issues related to workflow management and areas within workflow management that can benefit most from object-oriented technology. Other goals are to share ideas and experiences, reach consensus on approaches for resolving issues and strategies, and establish a communication mechanism.

Organizers:

Fred Cummins, EDS Leading Technologies & Methods
Email: fred.cummins@eds.com

Christoph Bussler, Boeing Research & Technology

Mamdouh Ibrahim, EDS Leading Technologies and Methods

Steve Marney, EDS Intelligent & Object Systems

Santanu Paul, TerraVision, Inc.