QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS BASED ON PASSBACK FLOW CONSISTENCY

Osamu Takaki, Takahiro Seino, Izumi Takeuti, Noriaki Izumi, Koichi Takahashi

2008

Abstract

Passback flows are a kind of flows which appear as replays of operations in a workflow diagram. In order to consider consistency of a workflow diagram and to verify the consistency, it needs to deal with passback flows as special ones. In this paper, we formalize a passback flow in a workflow diagram with only graph theoretical properties of the workflow diagram, and we give an algorithm detecting and removing all passback flows in a workflow diagram. Furthermore, with the algorithm, we extend consistency properties of the structure and life cycles of evidences over an acyclic workflow diagram into those over a general workflow diagram. Our methodology enables us to improve quality of a workflow diagram with loops.

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in Harvard Style

Takaki O., Seino T., Takeuti I., Izumi N. and Takahashi K. (2008). QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS BASED ON PASSBACK FLOW CONSISTENCY . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 351-359. DOI: 10.5220/0001709703510359

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Osamu Takaki and Takahiro Seino and Izumi Takeuti and Noriaki Izumi and Koichi Takahashi},
title={QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS BASED ON PASSBACK FLOW CONSISTENCY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={351-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001709703510359},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS BASED ON PASSBACK FLOW CONSISTENCY
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Takaki O.
AU - Seino T.
AU - Takeuti I.
AU - Izumi N.
AU - Takahashi K.
PY - 2008
SP - 351
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0001709703510359