Editors:
The book is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of YAWL and its support environment
Emerging areas such as declarative workflow specification and process configuration are exposed to a wider audience for the first time in textbook form
The book provides a sound basis for workflow concepts on the one hand and a detailed discussion of their technical realisation on the other hand
Readers will gain an understanding of advanced concepts in the field of Business Process Management that will accelerate and deepen their understanding of new systems and languages
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Concepts
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Flexibility and Change
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The Core System
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Services
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Positioning
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Arthur H. M. Hofstede, Michael Adams
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Dept. Mathematics & Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Wil M. P. Aalst
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Fac. Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nick Russell
About the editors
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, PhD, is a Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is an original contributor to the well-known workflow patterns as well as a codesigner of the YAWL language and manager of the development of its open-source support environment.
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, PhD, is a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is coauthor of the textbook Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems and editor of several other books in the areas of Business Process Management and Petri nets.
Michael Adams, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. He has developed the concepts of Worklets and Exlets to deal with workflow evolution and unexpected exceptions in YAWL. In addition, he is currently the technical lead of the YAWL support environment.
Nick Russell, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has conducted extensive research in the area of workflow patterns leading to collections of control-flow, data, resource and exception handling patterns. This work formed the basis for newYAWL and the solutions to resource and exception handling in YAWL 2.0.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Business Process Automation
Book Subtitle: YAWL and its Support Environment
Editors: Arthur H. M. Hofstede, Wil M. P. Aalst, Michael Adams, Nick Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03121-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03120-5Published: 30 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42490-8Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03121-2Published: 18 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 676
Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), IT in Business, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing