MAKING INCOMPLETE INFORMATION VISIBLE IN WORKFLOW SYSTEMS

Georg Peters, Roger Tagg

2007

Abstract

After a bumpy start in the nineties of the last century workflow systems have recently re-gained the focus of attention. Today they are considered as a crucial part of the recently introduced middleware based ERP systems. One of the central objectives and hopes for this technology is to make companies more process-orientated and flexible to keep up with the increasing speed of change of a global economy. This requires sophisticated instruments to optimally manage workflow systems, e.g. to deal with incomplete information effectively. In this paper we investigate the potential of rough set theory to make missing or incomplete information visible in workflow systems.

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Peters G. and Tagg R. (2007). MAKING INCOMPLETE INFORMATION VISIBLE IN WORKFLOW SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 434-440. DOI: 10.5220/0002361804340440


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Georg Peters and Roger Tagg},
title={MAKING INCOMPLETE INFORMATION VISIBLE IN WORKFLOW SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={434-440},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002361804340440},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - MAKING INCOMPLETE INFORMATION VISIBLE IN WORKFLOW SYSTEMS
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Peters G.
AU - Tagg R.
PY - 2007
SP - 434
EP - 440
DO - 10.5220/0002361804340440