Workflow Management

2008 | 2009 | 2010

Area/catalogue: INFT 4013
Course ID: 100480

School: School of Computer and Information Science

Campus/course component(s):
Mawson Lakes: Lecture — Seminar — Computer Practical
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Unit value: 4.5

Offered externally: Yes (Study Period 2)

Undergraduate elective course: No

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Course details

Prerequisite(s): INFS 3001 Inter-Enterprise Computing AND INFS 2011 Database Technology OR appropriate professional experience in information management as agreed by the Program Director and the Course Coordinator.

Introduction of business process re-engineering and workflow management: Trends in work and business management; suitable environments for workflow management.
Process modelling: Designing workflow and process models using Petri Nets and workflow specification languages; mapping Petri-Nets to workflow models; verification of the structural correctness of workflow process models.
Management of workflows: Consideration of temporal aspects and resources; data perspective and workflow-relevant data; managing the operation of workflows; transactional aspects; case handling.
Workflow management systems: Architecture and components of a WfMS; the Workflow Management Coalition standard; introduction to one real workflow system; workflow application design issues; relation to groupware and document management systems.
Advanced topics: Flexibility, adaptability and evolution of workflows; workflow in inter-enterprise computing; workflow as a means of orchestrating web services and other software components; integrating work lists with other user tasks.

Text book/s:

Van der Aalst, W. & Van Hee, K. 2001, Workflow Management: Models, Methods and Systems, MIT Press.

Course coordinator/s:

Mr Roger Tagg

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EFTSL: 0.125

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Commonwealth Supported Band Amount: Band 2
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