Workflow management systems

found: Work cat.: Providing high availability in very large workflow management systems, 1995:abstr. (Workflow management systems (WFMSs) support the modeling, coordinated execution and monitoring of business processes within an organization)

found: Workflow Management Coalition terminology & glossary, 1999:p. 9 (Workflow management system ... A system that defines, creates and manages the execution of workflows through the use of software, running on one or more workflow engines, which is able to interpret the process definition, interact with workflow participants and, where required, invoke the use of IT tools and applications ... synonyms: workflow automation, workflow manager; workflow computing system, case management)

found: Aalst, W.V.D. Workflow management, 2004:p. 357 (A workflow management system is a software package for the implementation of a workflow system. The term refers to a universally applicable system; in other words, a workflow management system is not customized to a specific business situation. By configuring such a system, it is turned into one which supports specific workflows. Unlike a workflow system, a workflow management system is thus a generic application. Synonym: WFMS. ... A workflow system usually consists of a workflow management system plus process and resource classification definitions, applications, a database system, and so on. We can compare the difference between a workflow management system and a workflow system to that between a database management system and a database system)

found: Zur Muehlen, M. Workflow-based process controlling, 2004:p. 39 (A workflow is a specific representation of a process, which is designed in such a way that the formal coordination mechanisms between activities, applications, and process participants can be controlled by an information system, the so-called workflow management system)

found: ACM transactions on database systems, Sept. 1999:p. 406 (Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are software systems for supporting coordination and cooperation among members of an organization, helping them to perform complex business processes. Workflow systems represent business processes by means of elementary activities and connections among them; activities represent either fully automated tasks executed by omputers, or tasks assigned to human actors executed with the support of a computer. WfMSs control the evolution of processes by initiating and assisting their different activities and by checking that they are correctly performed by all the actors)