臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

隨著Internet與企業間協同合作方式的興起，引發了商業運作模式快速的改變。越來越多商業運作由於協同合作模式之需要而跨越了組織範圍。而現階段，為了自動化、增進效率來減少成本，工作流程技術也被廣泛導入企業內部運作。然而，現今存在的眾多工作流程管理系統均為集中式架構。在眾多工作流程系統之間，它缺乏互相溝通、協同合作能力。在這一論文研究，我們將建構一個新的滿足於眾多工作流程間之協同合作運作的Inter-Workflow系統。我們將提出在眾多工作流程系統間之滿足協同流程的運作框架(cooperative workflow framework)。

The rise of Internet and cooperation among enterprises has led to rapid changes in business. More and more businesses are forms of cooperation across organizational boundaries. At the same time, workflow technologies have been introduced in enterprises for the purpose of automation and improvement to reduce the cost. However, many Workflow Management Systems (WFMS) can support the centralized architecture only. They lack cooperative capability among different WFMSs. In this thesis, we will construct a new inter-workflow system satisfying cooperation among different workflow processes. We will present a cooperative workflow framework for specifying processes cooperation between different WFMSs.

摘 要 4
Abstract 5
誌謝 6
Table of Contents 7
List of Tables 9
List of Figures 10
Chapter 1 Introduction 12
1.1 Workflow Technology 12
1.2 Motivation 12
1.3 System Intention 13
1.4 Thesis Organization 13
Chapter 2 Background 14
2.1 Workflow and Workflow Management System 14
2.2 The Workflow Reference Model 16
2.3 Inter-Workflow Concept 18
2.4 Overview of the Agentflow System 19
Chapter 3 The Cooperative Workflow Model 22
3.1 An Application Scenario with Inter-Workflow 22
3.2 Remote Process Creation 24
3.3 Remote Process Informing 24
3.4 Remote Process Call 25
3.4.1 Parameter Passing 25
3.4.2 Return Message Type 26
3.5 Execution Patterns of Cooperative Workflow Model 27
3.6 Organization Issue 29
Chapter 4 Design and Implement of the Cooperative Workflow Model 31
4.1 A Software Cooperative Process Model - CPLAN 32
4.2 Constructing the Cooperative Workflow Framework 33
4.2.1 Design Principle 34
4.2.2 Overall Structure of Cooperative Workflow Framework 36
4.3 Organization Repository 38
4.3.1 Naming Service 38
4.3.2 Remote Process Advertising Service 41
4.4 Cooperative Workflow Engine 43
4.4.1 Remote Call-Process Life Cycle 43
4.4.2 Cooperative Workflow Engine Architecture 46
4.4.3 Object Model of Cooperative Workflow Engine 49
4.4.4 Control Flow of Cooperative Workflow Engine 51
4.5 Collaboration Modes of Our Framework 54
4.5.1 Overview of the Collaboration Modes 55
4.5.2 Collaboration between Workflow Engine and Org. Repository 56
4.5.2.1 Workflow Engine Registry/Un-Registry Procedure 57
4.5.2.2 Remote Call-Process Advertising/Un-advertising Procedure 58
4.5.2.3 Remote Cooperative Workflow Engine Lookup Procedure 59
4.5.3 Collaboration between Cooperative Workflow Engines 61
Chapter 5 Conclusion and Future Work 64
References 65

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