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In every business organization, procedures are established to improve the efficiency, consistency, and quality of work. In this paper, we propose a design methodology for workflow application. It begins with an initial analysis phase (i.e., use case analysis) to capture requirement specifications, and ends with a workflow schema to be executed by a workflow management system. It incorporates workflow technology to support business process modeling that captures business processes as workflow specifications. Also, it employs a multi-step design approach to workflow schema generation, resulting in workflow schema at different levels of abstraction.
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Kim, J., Robert Carlson, C. (2002). A Design Methodology for Workflow System Development. In: Bhalla, S. (eds) Databases in Networked Information Systems. DNIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2544. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36233-9_2
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