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Workflow and Knowledge Management: Approaching an Integration

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As in a famous saying: “Knowledge comes from practice and should return to practice“, knowledge is closely related to business process where it is used and created. In this part, WFMS (Workflow management system), as a system for business process definition, execution and management, plays an import role in KM (knowledge management): a big knowledge consumer and an important knowledge provider. But now the standard workflow technology has very few knowledge considerations. In this paper, after analyzing the relation among knowledge and WFMS, a new architecture for their integration is proposed. Considering the implementation of this architecture, one of the key points, the extended workflow model is studied.

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  1. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Jin Lai & Yushun Fan

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  1. Institute of Computing Technique, P.O. Box 2704, 100080, Beijing, China

    Yanbo Han

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, 10598, NY, Yorktown Heights, USA

    Stefan Tai

  3. FH Brandenburg, University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburger Str. 50, 14770, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

    Dietmar Wikarski

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Lai, J., Fan, Y. (2002). Workflow and Knowledge Management: Approaching an Integration. In: Han, Y., Tai, S., Wikarski, D. (eds) Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems. EDCIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45785-2_2

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