Workflow Control-Flow Patterns: A Revised View

@techreport{WorkflowPatternsRevised, abstract = {The Work-flow Patterns Initiative was established with the aim of delineating the fundamental requirements that arise during business process modelling on a recurring basis and describe them in an imperative way. The first deliverable of this research project was a set of twenty patterns describing the control-flow perspective of workflow systems. Since their release, these patterns have been widely used by practitioners, vendors and academics alike in the selection, design and development of workflow systems. This paper presents the first systematic review of the original twenty control-flow patterns and provides a formal description of each of them in the form of a Coloured Petri-Net (CPN) model. It also identifies twenty three new patterns relevant to the control-flow perspective. Detailed context conditions and evaluation criteria are presented for each pattern and their implementation is assessed in fourteen commercial offerings including workflow and case handling systems, business process modelling formalisms and business process execution languages.}, author = {Russell, Nick and Arthur and van der Aalst, Wil M. P. and Mulyar, Natalya }, citeulike-article-id = {1263125}, institution = {BPMcenter.org}, journal = {BPM Center Report BPM-06-22}, keywords = {control-flow, patterns, workflow}, posted-at = {2007-11-09 16:02:56}, priority = {0}, title = {Workflow Control-Flow Patterns: A Revised View}, year = {2006} }

TY - RPRT ID - WorkflowPatternsRevised L3 - citeulike-article-id:1263125 TI - Workflow Control-Flow Patterns: A Revised View JF - BPM Center Report BPM-06-22 N2 - The Work-flow Patterns Initiative was established with the aim of delineating the fundamental requirements that arise during business process modelling on a recurring basis and describe them in an imperative way. The first deliverable of this research project was a set of twenty patterns describing the control-flow perspective of workflow systems. Since their release, these patterns have been widely used by practitioners, vendors and academics alike in the selection, design and development of workflow systems. This paper presents the first systematic review of the original twenty control-flow patterns and provides a formal description of each of them in the form of a Coloured Petri-Net (CPN) model. It also identifies twenty three new patterns relevant to the control-flow perspective. Detailed context conditions and evaluation criteria are presented for each pattern and their implementation is assessed in fourteen commercial offerings including workflow and case handling systems, business process modelling formalisms and business process execution languages. KW - control-flow KW - patterns KW - workflow AU - Russell, Nick AU - Arthur AU - van der Aalst, Wil AU - Mulyar, Natalya PY - 2006/// ER -