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Extending Cova Functionality to Support Business Processes

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Nowadays business process management (BPM) receives more and more attention and is considered as the “next step” after the workflow wave of the 1990s. Due to the complexity and divergence of business processes, many challenges need to be solved when developing a business process management system (BPMS). In this paper, a system based on Cova, a meta-groupware, is proposed to support business processes. The paper shows how the functionality of Cova is extended with the new emerging Web technologies and how unstructured collaboration is supported via instant messaging, conference service and agent technology. The proposed approach can be used as a reference when improving existing systems or developing new solutions to support business processes.

This work is co-sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.90412009 and No.60073011.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China

    Jinlei Jiang & Meilin Shi

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 800 Collip Circle, N6G 4X8, London, ON, Canada

    Wei-ming Shen

  2. DSM Research Group, Department of Computer and Network Systems Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Kuo-Ming Chao

  3. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Zongkai Lin

  4. Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  5. Faculty of Engineering & Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

    Anne James

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Jiang, J., Shi, M. (2006). Extending Cova Functionality to Support Business Processes. In: Shen, Wm., Chao, KM., Lin, Z., Barthès, JP.A., James, A. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II. CSCWD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3865. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11686699_54

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