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WorkFlow systems: a few definitions and a few suggestions

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Paulo Barthelmess,

Jacques WainerAuthors Info & Claims

COCS '95: Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems

Pages 138 - 147

https://doi.org/10.1145/224019.224033

Published: 13 August 1995 Publication History

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This paper hopes to make a contribution on three aspects of workflow systems: we stress the fact that there is a broken symetry between the level of the specification of the procedures and the level of their enactment; we propose some ways of classifying activities and exceptions; and we propose some run-time functionalities to help users deal with exceptions.

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