Enterprise frameworks for workflow management systems

This paper proposes an enterprise framework for workflow management (WFM) systems based on the Workflow Management Coalition generic architecture. In addition, it presents one smaller object-oriented framework for task scheduling. This framework is obtained by refining one of the packages of the overall framework. The task scheduling framework was designed following the concept of model framework as in Catalysis. This sort of framework can be used as a template to generate code components within an application domain. According to this approach we can develop WFM components that can interoperate within a well-defined enterprise framework. This paper also presents the process of developing interoperable code components from model frameworks. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.